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.
William Jennings BryanWe can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
William Jennings BryanAll the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.
William Jennings BryanYou 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.
William Jennings Bryan