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 BRYANThe speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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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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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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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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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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