Richard P. Bland famous quotes

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 P. Bland

#Funny #Strong #Farewell

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 P. Bland

#Country #Attention #Silver

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 P. Bland

#Country #Europe #Gdp

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 P. Bland

#Party #Dust #Names

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 P. Bland

#Genius #Territory #Voters

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 P. Bland

#Democracy #Democrat

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

#Shylock #Way #Determine

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.

The return makes one love the farewell.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.