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 BRYANWhen we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
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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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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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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.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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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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