William Bryan Quotations

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error

In this fight I have the most intolerant and vindictive enemies I have ever met and I have the largest majority on my side I have ever had and I am discussing the greatest issue I have ever discussed.

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

The government being the people's 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.

Nothing but football is in order this day. You, Nebraska, can conquer.

a brief address, in which he said that one of his chief reasons for wanting to go to Washington was that it was so near to Virginia.

If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust.

The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.