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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

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Crucify Gold Kind Man Yourself
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
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 BRYAN

Animation Brief Change Man Pay Suffering Visit
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Blood Constant Freedom Government
The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Children Himself Human Mindset Rule Wisdom Writing
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Feeling Himself Man Thinking
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Religion Win
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Attention Discussion Drawn Greatness Settle
The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Final Greatness Politics Question Wrong
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

Confidence Development Experience Record Success Yourself
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Atheist Home Parents Pay Right Teacher
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Breathe Change Fear Human Life Live Moments Thinking
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 BRYAN

Burn Country Farm Leaving Magic Spring Yourself
The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Argument Freedom Myself People Silver
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Consent Earth Nation People Question
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Active Burden Enjoyment Life
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Age Important Rock
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Deal Government Greedy Wrong
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
Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Forever Invisible Mystery Patriotism
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Advance Common Interest Obstruction Oneself Selfish Truth
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
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.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Evolution Heart Mindset Open Plain Science Spiritual Truth
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Body Change Count Death Man Spark Spirit
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