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.
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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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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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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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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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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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
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Principles are eternal.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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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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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.
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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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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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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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