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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

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

Feeling Himself Man Thinking
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
Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Company Death Future Union
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Civil Religion Right Teaching
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
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
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief God Heart Thinking Universe
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Advance Common Interest Obstruction Oneself Selfish Truth
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Continue Hesitation Labor Moments Oneself Struggle Success Watch
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Blood Constant Freedom Government
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

History Myself People Place
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief Control Fundamental God Influence Life
If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bible Religious Science Wrong
If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Lawyer Need Requirement
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