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 BRYANThe large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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Principles are eternal.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
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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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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 it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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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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