William Jennings Bryan Quotes

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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…
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
• This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger…
• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
• My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
• I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
• 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…
• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved…
• If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
• If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

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