Richard Parks Bland Quotes

• 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 in the future.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Future, God

  Tags in Political

• 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 interest of England or of Europe.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help, Hand, American

• 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 upon it.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Made, War

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whatever, Means, United

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Born

• Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Fight

• 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 the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Friends

• 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 it!

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Speak

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

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Fight, Made

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Mean, May

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Right, American

• We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Silver, Exchange

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Without, Give

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Attention, Question

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Stand, Determine

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place, Away

Richard Parks Bland (16)

Birth:	19th August, 1835
Death:	15th June, 1899
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Teacher

About

Richard Parks Bland was an American school teacher, lawyer, and Democratic Congressman serving between 1873 and 1899, except for 1895, returning to office in 1897.

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