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 BRYANAs long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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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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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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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.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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None 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.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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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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