Frases de William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan , advogado e político dos Estados Unidos. Foi Secretário de Estado dos Estados Unidos da América.

Membro do Partido Democrata, foi candidato à presidência dos Estados Unidos em três ocasiões: nas eleições de 1896, de 1900 e de 1908. Em todas foi derrotado pelos candidatos do Partido Republicano, primeiro por William McKinley e depois por William Howard Taft.

Foi o acusador e testemunha principal no "Julgamento do Macaco", no qual se acusou o mestre-escola John Thomas Scopes de ensinar a teoria da evolução aos seus alunos.

Alguns escritores norte-americanos defenderam que Willian J. Bryan inspirou o personagem Leão Covarde do livro "O Maravilhoso Mágico de Oz". Supõe-se que o próprio autor da obra, L.Frank Baum, era um adepto do extinto Partido Populista norte-americano. O Leão Covarde da obra de ficção, a figura mais aterrorizadora da floresta, a autoridade, o rei dos animais, escondia que era um medroso. Bryan tinha um pouco disso, pois era a principal figura de renome do Partido Populista. Tinha um grande dom para oratória, era carismático e muito persuasivo. Mas na hora de disputar a eleição para presidente dos EUA, não mostrava a mesma força. Foram cinco candidaturas para presidente, sendo derrotado em todas essas eleições, inclusive na última que disputou pelo Partido Democrata. O Leão de "O Mágico de Oz", seria uma sátira, uma paródia a Bryan, fora o fato de defenderem que o próprio enredo seria uma alegoria do Partido Populista norte-americano, com Frank Baum indiretamente idealizando as doutrinas do Partido. Ele foi um dos primeiros denunciadores da Ku Klux Klan da história dos Estados Unidos e um importante ativista anti-racista. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Março 1860 – 26. Julho 1925   •   Outros nomes W. J. Bryan
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William Jennings Bryan Frases famosas

“O destino não é uma questão de oportunidade. É uma questão de escolha. Não é algo para se ficar esperando, é algo a ser conquistado.”

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
"Republic Or Empire? The Philippine Question" - Página 35; de William Jennings Bryan - Publicado por The Independence Co., 1899

“Você não pode julgar um homem pela vida de sucesso até um momento, até a vitória de uma hora, ou até mesmo pelos resultados de um ano. Você deverá ver a sua vida como um todo.”

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.
"The Law and the Gospel" [A Lei e o Evangelho]

William Jennings Bryan: Frases em inglês

“You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.”

"The Law and the Gospel" (1896)
Contexto: You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave — now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks — tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

“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.”

"America's Mission", speech delivered by the leader of the Democratic Party at the Washington Day banquet given by the Virginia Democratic Association at Washington, D.C., (22 February 1899), as published in The Book of Public Speaking (Vol. 2) http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Book_of_Public_Speaking_v2_1000538531/149

“Appearance too often takes the place of reality — the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash.”

Address at Illinois College (1881)
Contexto: Appearance too often takes the place of reality — the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, "I know not seem!"

“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
Contexto: If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and 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.

“In this, our land, we are called upon to give but little in return for the advantages which we receive. Shall we give that little grudgingly? Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow.”

"The Jury System" (February 1890)
Contexto: In this, our land, we are called upon to give but little in return for the advantages which we receive. Shall we give that little grudgingly? Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field.

“Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field.”

"The Jury System" (February 1890)
Contexto: In this, our land, we are called upon to give but little in return for the advantages which we receive. Shall we give that little grudgingly? Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field.

“Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within.”

Address at Illinois College (1881)
Contexto: Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within. The contest between light and darkness, right and wrong, goes on; day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, our characters are being formed, and this is the all-important question which comes to us in accents ever growing fainter as we journey from the cradle to the grave, "Shall those characters be good or bad?"

“Plutocracy is abhorrent to a republic; it is more despotic than monarchy, more heartless than aristocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in the hour of its calamity.”

Address at Madison Square Garden, New York (30 August 1906), at a reception welcoming Bryan on his return from a year's trip around the world, published in Speeches of William Jennings Bryan, Funk & Wagnalls, (1909), p. 90 http://books.google.com/books?id=E0QOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90&vq=%22And+who+can+suffer+injury+by+just+taxation%22&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1
Contexto: And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.
Plutocracy is abhorrent to a republic; it is more despotic than monarchy, more heartless than aristocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in the hour of its calamity. Conscienceless, compassionless and devoid of wisdom, it enervates its votaries while it impoverishes its victims. It is already sapping the strength of the nation, vulgarizing social life and making a mockery of morals. The time is ripe for the overthrow of this giant wrong. In the name of the counting-rooms which it has denied; in the name of business honor which it has polluted; in the name of the home which it has despoiled; in the name of religion which it has disgraced; in the name of the people whom it has opprest, let us make our appeal to the awakened conscience of the nation.

“This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.”

Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
Contexto: This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to speak to you in defence of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity.

“Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it, and from that one tooth decided that it was the remains of the missing link. They have queer ideas about age too. They find a fossil and when they are asked how old it is they say they can't tell without knowing what rock it was in, and when they are asked how old the rock is they say they can't tell unless they know how old the fossil is.”

As quoted in "Osborn States the Case For Evolution", in The New York Times (12 Jul 1925), p. XX1; the tooth was misidentified as anthropoid by Osborn, who over-zealously proposed Nebraska Man in 1922; the tooth was shortly thereafter found to be that of a peccary (a Pliocene pig) when further bones were found. A retraction was made in 1927, correcting the scientific blunder.