William Jennings Bryan Quotes
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.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
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.
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.
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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.
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
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.
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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.
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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.
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.
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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.
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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.
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.
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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.
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.
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?
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
