No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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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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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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.
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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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.
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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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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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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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.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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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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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Principles are eternal.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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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?
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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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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
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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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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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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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