William Jennings Bryan Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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 than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Country, Humanity

  Tags in Humblest, Citizens

• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Believe

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Will

• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Develop, Self-Confidence, Successful

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in God

  Tags in Faith

• 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

• The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Humblest, Citizen

• One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Themselves

• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• 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

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

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Education, Religion

• 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

• 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

William Jennings Bryan (28)

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

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