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 to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• 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

  One Day, Majority, Minorities

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• The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Progress, Done

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• 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

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• 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

  People, Can Do, Bryan

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• 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

  Country, Spring, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

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• Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Selfish, Common, Interest

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

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• 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

  Talking, Two, People

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• Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Impossible

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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• Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Understanding, Facts

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• The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Spring, Book

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

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

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  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

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

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

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  Heart, Ears, Speech

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• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Book, Teaching, America

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• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

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

  William Jennings Bryan

  Population, Poultry, Incubation

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• If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Law, Needs, Lawyer

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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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• 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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• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

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  Rights, Government, Views

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The Royal Art”

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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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

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

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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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Blood, Vigilance

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

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• Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

  William Jennings Bryan

  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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