“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”

About William Jennings Bryan

Politician • American

William Jennings Bryan was a prominent American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in the 1890s, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for...