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William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, he was often called "The Great Commoner".

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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.

Corporation, Except, Exercise, Private, Rights, Views

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

Done, Earth, Greatest, Inspirational, Progress, Things

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.

Force, Lauded, Man, Men, People, Want

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

America, Evolution, Ills, Suffering, Suffers, Teaching

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

Exterminate, Honesty, Kluxism, Ku Klux Klan, Teaching, Wrong

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.

Believe, Essentials, World, Morality, Dependent

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

Believe, Impossible, Attempt, Seemingly

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Careers, Enactment, Federal, Law, Public, Regret

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.

Discussion, Long, Matter, Nations, Rights

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

Admit, May, Pockets, Reason, Refuses, Self

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Ambition, Class, Contemptible, Love, Selfish, Thing

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Attention, Causes, Drawn, People, Settlement

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

Blessing, Blessings, Man, Men, Pay

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?

Changed, Inanimate, Men, Royal, Spirit, Suffering

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.

Comfort, Gone, Mankind, Mass, Promise, Worship

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

Evolution, Guesses, Hypothesis, Merely, Together

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city. . . You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Broad, Brow, Cities, Destroy, Magic, Spring

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

Christ, Companionship, Starlit, Strip, Tomorrow, Yesterday

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.

Door, Doors, Drives, Hopes Up, There Is No God, Universe

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.

Corporations, Difference, Differences, Natural, Possess, Purpose

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