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 BRYANGreed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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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.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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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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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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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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