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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANTwo 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.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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Principles are eternal.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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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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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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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.
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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