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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.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Gold Hard Work Kind Labor Man Yourself
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Fire Oneself Speech Talk Thinking
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Democracy Hope Myself Party Togetherness
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Active Burden Enjoyment Life
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
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 BRYAN

Animation Brief Change Man Pay Suffering Visit
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Believe Essential Moral Practical Religion True
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 BRYAN

History Myself People Place
I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Death Enough Information Live Religion Satisfaction Time Try
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Attention Discussion Drawn Greatness Settle
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Deal Government Greedy Wrong
The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bank Large Opportunity Profit
Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Company Death Future Union
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Defend Discussion Greatness Human Interest Place Public Rights Talk
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Employment Errors God Man Mistake Religious Willing
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Forever Invisible Mystery Patriotism
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Civil Religion Right Teaching
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Assumption Chronicle Creation Earth Life Reveal Source
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Better Honesty Recognition Teaching Wrong
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Desire Government Ourselves Rule Spiritual
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Feeling Himself Man Thinking
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Believe Myself Swallow
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief God Heart Thinking Universe
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Suffering Teaching Trace
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Guess Togetherness Truth
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking