black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Assumption Human Life Man Murder Responsibility Vote
Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Company Death Future Union
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Feeling Himself Man Thinking
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Earn Honesty Money Oneself
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Deal Government Greedy Wrong
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Fact Interpret Relate Right Understand
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Employment Errors God Man Mistake Religious Willing
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Accomplishment Believe Sincerity Success Willing Wrong
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
As 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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Defend Discussion Greatness Human Interest Place Public Rights Talk
If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bible Religious Science Wrong
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
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
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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Animation Brief Change Man Pay Suffering Visit