100+ William Jennings Bryan Quotes

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

Topics: Soul, Temptation, Connections

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

Topics: Rocks, Age, Important

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Topics: Together, Evolution, Hypothesis

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

Topics: Earth, Assuming, Creation, Chronicles

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Topics: Teaching, Rights, Civilization, Bryan, Anglo Saxon

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?

Topics: New York, Independence, Liberty, Statue Of Liberty, Representing

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.

Topics: Fighting, Winning, People

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.

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

Topics: Rights, Government, Views, Bryan, Equal Rights

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

Topics: Pursuit Of Happiness, Government, Rights, Bryan, Inalienable Rights

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?

Topics: Men, Suffering, Guests, Tenements

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

Topics: Honesty, Teaching, Ku Klux Klan

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

Topics: Law, Needs, Lawyer

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

Topics: Mean, Fire, Talking

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

Topics: Mean, Facts, Understood

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

Topics: Sight, Earth, Pages, Hope For The Future

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.

Topics: Talking, Two, People

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.

Topics: New York, Government, Cities

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.

Topics: Heart, Would Be, Belief, Belief In God

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Topics: Christian, Atheist, Atheism

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Topics: Thinking, Men, Feels, Orators

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

Topics: Spiritual, Attitude, Mind

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Topics: Fundamentals, Belief, Influence

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.

Topics: Christian, Trying, Information

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.

Topics: Men, Climbing, Views, Tested, Rugged

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

Topics: Ignorance, Law, Practice, Noble Profession

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.

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

Topics: Men, People, Thieves

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.

Topics: Responsibility, Men, Years

God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.

Topics: Promise, Gone, May

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Topics: Gold, Crosses, Mankind

Principles are eternal.

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

Topics: Principles, Eternal

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

Topics: Microscopes, Ifs

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.

Topics: Exercise, Views, Law

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.

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

Topics: Light, Enemy, Bankers, Money And Power, Insolent

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.

Topics: Rights, Long, Matter

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

Topics: Government, Views, Issues, Paper Money

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.

Topics: Real, Causes, Saving

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

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

Topics: Yesterday, Tomorrow, Companionship

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.

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

Topics: Differences, Purpose, Corporations

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