Burn 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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANNever be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.
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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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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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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.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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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.
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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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.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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