126 Quotes by William Jennings Bryan

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay."

"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."

"When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong."

"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."

"The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits."