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 BRYANNever be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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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 great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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.
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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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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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