Creator: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 / Collection: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

1. "You will see in the media packaged political candidates, packaged like breakfast cereal, at a fantastic cost to somebody"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

2. "You made it possible for me to serve in Washington during the most critical history of the world"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

3. "You know Russia has never put a man on the moon, not to this day"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

4. "Yes, I am a candidate for governor"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

5. "What would you do if the lights went out?"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

6. "What do you want to do when you grow up? I immediately replied, Make laws for the people"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

7. "We were fighting for freedom. And yes, our men and women fought over there in all of our wars to keep the tide of war from the shores of this great county"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

8. "We helped get Fort Jackson a permanent base"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

9. "Too few people really know the history of Edgefield and of South Carolina"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

10. "They tell me we got oil off the coast of South Carolina, it just needs tapping"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

11. "There are several things that need to be done in South Carolina"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

12. "The only force that can overcome evil and prevent the horrors of war-blood-filth is a strong America, strong military, strong morally, strong spiritually, strong educationally and this is the great challenge before you and before me"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

13. "The best government business in the whole world, education is good business"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

14. "The Constitution of this country guarantees us the right to bear arms"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

15. "Thank you, Sheriff"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

16. "Thank you, Jennings, you know, my son and I like your name"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

17. "So why join the American Legion?"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

18. "My friends, one of the great challenges of our time is to use freedom, is to know something about freedom, to exercise it, crank it up and grease it, and put some gasoline in it, oil it, knock the rust off it and use it"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

19. "It is a great honor for me always to come home and to visit Saluda"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

20. "If it is going to cost a million dollars to be elected governor, then forget about me, I am not running"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

21. "I'm not going to quote the Bible tonight, I learned better than that a long time ago"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

22. "I'll tell you what, we need to pass some of that gravy around in Columbia to some of our young lawyers"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

23. "I'll be the same kind of governor as I was your congressman, bringing services to the people"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

24. "I will devote every hour of the next four years to you, the people of South Carolina"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

25. "I was told that in a county not far from here that the biggest single industry was welfare"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

26. "I was accused, for the first time in a number of years, of having any further political ambition"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

27. "I understand that y'all have some questions for my father"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

28. "I tell you and can report to you that the GI Education Bill did more to eliminate classism in this nation than all the legislation in the history of this nation combined"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

29. "I say to you, my dear friends, that we need to go back, and I don't mean turn the clock back, but go back the principles we learned at our mother's knees"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

30. "I had forgotten but he knew that William Jennings Bryan in Florida was just like St. Patrick in Ireland or Robert E. Lee in Virginia"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

31. "I am the legal, constituted nominee of the Democratic Party of South Carolina for governor"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

32. "I am just plain Bryan Dorn"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

33. "I am a farmer"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

34. "Everywhere I go, I try to leave a little bit of optimism, boost people up but quite frankly we're not in the best shape in the world"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

35. "Everyday, I have someone come up to me and say, 'name my name,'"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

36. "Education, of course, is one of the great questions before our state"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

37. "As governor, I want to back up law enforcement"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

38. "And you know you mentioned Baptists, I wish you'd leave this Baptist business out 'cause I have a lot of friends among the Methodists, Episcopalians, and all of that"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

39. "After every war, we make the same mistake"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

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