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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThere 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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