Richard Parks Bland Quotes

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine. - Richard Parks Bland

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance. - Richard Parks Bland

We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question. - Richard Parks Bland

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange. - Richard Parks Bland

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends. - Richard Parks Bland

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. - Richard Parks Bland

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. - Richard Parks Bland

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. - Richard Parks Bland

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. - Richard Parks Bland

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. - Richard Parks Bland

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