Bryan is the least of a liar I know in public life. I have always found him direct and honest, and he never goes back on what he h...as said to me in private--a rare thing, if found, in public men. I found him purely frank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do ...this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, but--almost the exact contrary--in one idea. Whe...n he erects this idea into a system and forces the system to give birth to a way of life, confusion often results, usually to his great surprise. Two examples are Robespierre and Lenin. The intellectual is occasionally blamed for the work of the ideologue, which is like condemning the psychiatrist because he and the patient are both involved in the same thing, mental illness. The ideologue is often brilliant. Consequently some of us distrust brilliance when we should distrust the ideologue.... The ideologue is often more persuasive than the intellectual because he has a simpler line of goods to sell and never questions its value. Sometimes he achieves great success by attacking the real intellectual--Bryan is a good example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan techniqu...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked faci...al resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I'll tell you something, old man, if they don't stop hammering me, first Bryan ...for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his gener...ation and one of the biggest political men of our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, an...d the toilers everywhere, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the ...rights of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »