My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANOn Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
More William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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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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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 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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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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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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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Principles are eternal.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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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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