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 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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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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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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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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Principles are eternal.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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