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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

William Jennings Bryan

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Attitude Evolution Mindset Natural Spiritual
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Assumption Human Life Man Murder Responsibility Vote
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Gold Hard Work Kind Labor Man Yourself
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Burn Country Farm Leaving Magic Spring Yourself
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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Death Enough Information Live Religion Satisfaction Time Try
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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Blood Constant Freedom Government
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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Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
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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Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Belief Control Fundamental God Influence Life
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Defend Discussion Greatness Human Interest Place Public Rights Talk
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Earn Honesty Money Oneself
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Live Ourselves Rest
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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Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Career Regret Reservation Secure Work
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Democracy Hope Myself Party Togetherness
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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Animal Believe Man Reason Small
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Achievement Choice Destiny Philosophy Spiritual Wait
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
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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Empire Fear Flag Stand
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Advance Common Interest Obstruction Oneself Selfish Truth
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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Accomplishment Believe Sincerity Success Willing Wrong
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Drive God Himself Hope Universe
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Desire Government Ourselves Rule Spiritual
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Civilization Himself Respect Right Teaching
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 BRYAN

Better Destroy Evolution Save Suffering Trace
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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Active Burden Enjoyment Life
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Assumption Chronicle Creation Earth Life Reveal Source