We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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 the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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