William Jennings Bryan/fighting The Theory of Evolution - 1918%e2%80%931925

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    “At last now you can be
    What the old cannot recall
    And the young long for in dreams,
    Yet still include them all.”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

    “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.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “In fighting there are no light blows; in cursing, no gentle words.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Psychotherapy—The theory that the patient will probably get well anyway, and is certainly a damned ijjit.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.”
    —Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)