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William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)

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Premio Bellas Artes Poesía Aguascaliente 2012

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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Destiny is not a 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.
Destiny...is not a 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
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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.
The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
The American Presidential Election of 1896
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Free Silver
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The American Presidential Election of 1900
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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
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William Jennings Bryan and the Cross of Gold Speech - US 101
The American Presidential Election of 1908
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William Jennings Bryan recites "23rd Psalm" (Psalm 23) The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...

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