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- 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
- The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends. — Richard Parks Bland
- We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange. — Richard Parks Bland
- 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
- 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
- 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