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• 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

  Military, War, Exercise

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• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mothers Day, Mother, Months

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• That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Regret, Law, Careers

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• I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fighting, Winning, People

  Letter to Andrew Carnegie, January 13, 1899.

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• You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Gold, Thorns, Bankers

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

  William Jennings Bryan

  War, Opportunity, Banking

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• Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Causes, Saving

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• This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

  William Jennings Bryan

  People, Waiting, Earth

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

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• If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Doors, There Is No God, Hopes Up

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

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Successful, Doubt

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• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Science, Acceptance

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

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

  William Jennings Bryan

  Party, Wings, Two

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• Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Men, Blood

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

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• 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.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Eye, Deeds Done

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• 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

  Littles, Action, Burden

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• I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Trying, Information

  Statements at the Scopes Trial, July 1925.

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• 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

  Death, Men, Body

  William Jennings Bryan's eulogy at Elks Lodge annual memorial service in Lincoln, Nebraska (December 2, 1906), as reported by the Nebraska State Journal (p. 3), December 3, 1906.

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• Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Companionship

  "William Jennings Bryan's Last Statement: Bryan and Darrow at Dayton". Book edited by Leslie H. Allen, bertie.ccsu.edu. 1925.

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• The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Banking, Coins

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

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

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• We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

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  Breathing, Clay, May

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

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• 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

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Attitude, Mind

  William Jennings Bryan, Lowell Harris Coate (1925). “The dawn of humanity”

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• The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Differences, Purpose, Corporations

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The people's law”

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