William Jennings Bryan Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

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.

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

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

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

Principles are eternal.

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.

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