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 BRYANIf 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.
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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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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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 hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
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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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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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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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