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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

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
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief Control Fundamental God Influence Life
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Believe Easy Miracle Oneself
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
If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Drive God Himself Hope Universe
Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Belief God Heart Thinking Universe
If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Bible Religious Science Wrong
If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Lawyer Need Requirement
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Forever Invisible Mystery Patriotism
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Assumption Chronicle Creation Earth Life Reveal Source
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
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
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Civil Religion Right Teaching
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