We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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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.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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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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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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If we steal a man’s purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man’s money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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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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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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