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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

William Jennings Bryan

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 BRYAN

Employment Errors God Man Mistake Religious Willing
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Death Enough Information Live Religion Satisfaction Time Try
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Conversation Listening Oneself People Talk Thinking
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Heart Lips Speech
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Attitude Evolution Mindset Natural Spiritual
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
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
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
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Fact Interpret Relate Right Understand
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
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
Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Blood Rich Time Trade War
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Active Burden Enjoyment Life
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Religion Win
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Age Important Rock