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• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Lying, Sacrifice

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Cities, Government

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• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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

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  Bible, Believe, Whales

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• If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

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  Men, Islands, White

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• Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

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  Earth, Assuming, Creation

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “The menace of Darwinism”

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

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  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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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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  Temptation, Soul, Connections

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1913). “Political speeches. Speeches on foreign lands. Educational and religiouus speeches. Miscellaneous speeches”

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• 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

  People, Attention, Causes

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

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  Soldier, Victory, Citizens

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

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  Government, Blood, Vigilance

  William Jennings Bryan (1917). “Heart to Heart Appeals”

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• The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

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  Sight, Earth, Pages

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  People, Political, Looks

  William Jennings Bryan (1967). “William Jennings Bryan: Selections”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill [1967]

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• The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

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  Rocks, Important, Age

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

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  Spring, Cities, Magic

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

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  Rights, Long, Matter

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• And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

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  Light, Enemy, Bankers

  Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York, August 30, 1906.

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• The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Fire, Talking

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

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  Exercise, Views, Law

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

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  Success, Struggle, Steps

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

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  Men, Rocks, Climbing

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Greed, Deals

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mystery, Invisible, Intangible

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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