Quotes by William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
– William Jennings Bryan
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
– William Jennings Bryan
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
– William Jennings Bryan
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
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
– William Jennings Bryan
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
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
– William Jennings Bryan
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
– William Jennings Bryan
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
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
– William Jennings Bryan
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
– William Jennings Bryan
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
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
– William Jennings Bryan
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