Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNone so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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Principles are eternal.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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