William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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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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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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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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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
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The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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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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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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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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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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Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?
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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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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
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Principles are eternal.