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If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.
William Jennings Bryan
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William Jennings Bryan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1860
Born: March 18
Died: 1925
Died: July 26
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Illinois
William J. Bryan
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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.
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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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Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought of what social conditions would be if reverence for God were erased from every heart.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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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.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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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.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
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If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him the reason may be found in his pocket.
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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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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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Evolution is not truth it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
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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.
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