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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Richard Parks Bland Richard Parks Bland (August 19, 1835 – June 15, 1899) was an American politician, lawyer, and educator from Missouri. A Democrat, Bland served in the United States Congress a total of twenty-four years between 1873 and 1899, representing at various times the Missouri 5th, 8th and 11th congressional districts. Nicknamed "Silver Dick" for his efforts to promote a United States return to bimetallism and an advocate of the free silver movement,... Read full biography of Richard Parks Bland → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and... → 0 We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange. 0 It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war... → 0 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... → 0 I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the... → 0 Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it. 0 The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends. 0 Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine. 0 I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of... → 0 It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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