“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.”
“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.”
“Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.”
“We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.”
“Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.”
“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.”