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William Jennings Bryan

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One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.


— William Jennings Bryan


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There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.


— William Jennings Bryan


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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


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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.


— William Jennings Bryan


#around #behold #beneath #bowed #empires

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.


— William Jennings Bryan


#democratic party #flap #hope #i #may

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.


— William Jennings Bryan


#burdens #enjoy #life #little #none

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


— William Jennings Bryan


#evolution #ills #suffers #teaching #traced

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


#close #evolution #guesses #heart #mind

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


#body #countless #deaths #find #grain

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.


— William Jennings Bryan


#bible #had #i #jonah #said






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Parker in 1904 who lost to Roosevelt. Numbers Bryan was not nearly as much of a fundamentalist as many modern-day creationists and is more accurately described as a "day-age creationist": "William Jennings Bryan the much misunderstood leader of the post–World War I antievolution crusade not only read the Mosaic "days" as geological "ages" but allowed for the possibility of organic evolution—so long as it did not impinge on the supernatural origin of Adam and Eve. After 1920 he was a strong supporter of Prohibition and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925.

Five days after the end of the case he died in his sleep. "
In the intensely fought 1896 and 1900 elections he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democratic Party. William Jennings Bryan (March 19 1860 – July 26 1925) was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.

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