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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

William Jennings Bryan

I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it.… I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

William Jennings Bryan

If we delight in gossip, and are not content unless each neighbor is laid upon the dissecting table, we form a character unenviable indeed, and must be willing to bear the contempt of all the truly good, while we roll our bit of scandal as a sweet morsel under the tongue.

William Jennings Bryan

But if each day we gather some new truths, plant ourselves more firmly upon principles which are eternal, guard every thought and action, that it may be pure, and conform our lives more nearly to that Perfect Model, we shall form a character that will be a fit background on which to paint the noblest deeds and the grandest intellectual and moral achievements; a character that cannot be concealed, but which will bring success in this life and form the best preparation for that which is beyond.

William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

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Born: March 19, 1860

Died: July 26, 1925 (aged 65)

Bio: William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States.

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The Prince of Peace (1909)
The first battle (1896)
Seven Questions In Dispute (1924)
The memoirs of William Jennings Bryan (1925)

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