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?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANIf it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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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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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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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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Principles are eternal.
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Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
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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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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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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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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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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.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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