126 Quotes by William Jennings Bryan
"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience."
"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."
"A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility."
"The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed."
"The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions."
"This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth."
"Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined."
"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."
"Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow."