The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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Principles are eternal.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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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 Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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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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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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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.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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