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 BRYANBurn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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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.
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There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret–my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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