William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryanwas an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. He resigned because of his pacifist position on World War I. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a strong...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth19 March 1860
CountryUnited States of America
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Principles are eternal...
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.
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
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.
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.
Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.
If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.