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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Believe Easy Miracle Oneself
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Fire Oneself Speech Talk Thinking
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 BRYAN

Liberty Man Money Patriot Pursue Steal Yourself
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Afraid Day Minority Oneself Right Stand
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Heart Mindset Open Plain Science Spiritual Truth
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Burn Country Farm Leaving Magic Spring Yourself
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Religion Win
If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Drive God Himself Hope Universe
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Animal Believe Man Reason Small
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Essence Expression Goodness Patriot Sacrifice True Willing
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Argument Freedom Myself People Silver
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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Better Destroy Evolution Save Suffering Trace
When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Blessing Enjoyment Government Man Ourselves Pay Share Willing
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Suffering Teaching Trace