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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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