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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNo greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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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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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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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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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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