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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANThe Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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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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.
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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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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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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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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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