If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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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 we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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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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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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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