Richard Parks Bland

“The great fight is now on between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country.”

“They call me 'Silver Dick.' Well, if I am for silver, it is because I believe it is the money of the common people.”

“This is a struggle for the right of the people to govern themselves.”

“The dollar of our daddies.”

“I am for the unlimited coinage of both gold and silver, and for making each a full legal tender for all debts, public and private.”

“The gold standard is a British policy... the most disastrous financial policy ever adopted by this country.”

“We ask for the remonetization of silver because it is the money of the people, the money of the constitution, the money that will bring prosperity.”

“We want the money of the Constitution, every dollar of it, and we intend to have it.”