Quotes from William Jennings Bryan

We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold

If true Christianity consists in carrying out in our daily lives the teachings of Christ, who will say that we are commanded to civilize with dynamite and proselyte with the sword? ... Imperialism finds no warrant in the Bible. The command 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature' has no Gatling gun attachment.

Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved

RockChristopher: Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

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.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

When I find a person who thinks he is too good to take part in politics, I find one who is not quite good enough to deserve the blessings of a free government.

Why should the Bible, which the centuries have been unable to shake, be discarded for scientific works that have to be corrected and revised every few years?

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

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.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

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.

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