My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
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Principles are eternal.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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?
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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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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 the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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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