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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.

William Jennings Bryan

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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Live Ourselves Rest
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Essence Expression Goodness Patriot Sacrifice True Willing
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Consent Earth Nation People Question
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Liberty Man Money Patriot Pursue Steal Yourself
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Advance Common Interest Obstruction Oneself Selfish Truth
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 BRYAN

Animal Believe Man Reason Small
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Connection Money Soul Temptation
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
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Feeling Himself Man Thinking
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Afraid Day Minority Oneself Right Stand
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief Control Fundamental God Influence Life
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
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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bible Religious Science Wrong