William Jennings Bryan Quotes

• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortal soul in the same circle with the wolf, the hyena, and the skunk? What must be the impression made upon children by such a degradation of man?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Opposites, Science
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  Destiny is not a 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Destiny, Choice

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Thought, Thoughts, Listener

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Destroy

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republic, Loved

• Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, American

• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in American

• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population

• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speech

• I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Democratic, Democratic Party

• 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

  Topics in Evolution, Truth

  Tags in Spiritual

• If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bible, Believe

• 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

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Spirit

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, United States, Citizen

• If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Education, Religion

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Afraid, Majority, Minority, Right

• 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 Bryan

  Topics in History

  Tags in People

William Jennings Bryan (28)

Birth:	19th March, 1860
Death:	26th July, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

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