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Quote from H. L. Mencken,

"Once [William Jennings Bryan] had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards."



By:

H. L. Mencken (more quotes by H. L. Mencken or books by/about H. L. Mencken)


(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Source:

writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.

Categories:

Agnostic, Reason, Religion, Science, Tolerance, Truth

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