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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

William Jennings Bryan

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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Achievement Choice Destiny Philosophy Spiritual Wait
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
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
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Forever Invisible Mystery Patriotism
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
Principles are eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Forever One Liner Principle
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Fire Oneself Speech Talk Thinking
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Accomplishment Believe Sincerity Success Willing Wrong
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Religion Win
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
As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Defend Discussion Greatness Human Interest Place Public Rights Talk
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Confidence Development Experience Record Success Yourself
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

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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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Afraid Day Minority Oneself Right Stand