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 BRYANEvolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
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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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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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.
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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.
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The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
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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 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 we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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