JAMES G. BLAINE

[Describing Hawaii:] ... essentially a part of the American system

I believe gold and silver coin to be the money of the Constitution. No power was conferred on Congress to declare that either metal should not be money. Congress has therefore no power to demontize silver any more than to demonitize gold.

… his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut

It is vastly more important not to lose our own great market for our own people.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

Those of us who eat beef and bread and drink beer … will have to drop his knife and fork and take up the chopsticks.

The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting: his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how. If there had been no Independence Day, England and America combined would not be so great as each actually is. There is no "Republican," no "Democrat," on the Fourth of July—all are Americans.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

[Describing Hawaii:] ... essentially a part of the American system

I believe gold and silver coin to be the money of the Constitution. No power was conferred on Congress to declare that either metal should not be money. Congress has therefore no power to demontize silver any more than to demonitize gold.

The interests, commercial and political, of the U. S., on this continent, transcend in extent and importance those of any other power.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

It is vastly more important not to lose our own great market for our own people.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how. If there had been no Independence Day, England and America combined would not be so great as each actually is. There is no "Republican," no "Democrat," on the Fourth of July—all are Americans.

The contempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting: his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of this House.

At this time there was but one among the great nations of the world which adhered to an active and avowed friendship for us. "We desire above all things the maintenance of the American Union as one indivisible nation," was the kindly and always to be remembered greeting that came to us from the Emperor of Russia.

The United States has the right to use its friendly offices in discouragement of any movement on the part of neighboring states which may tend to disturb the balance of power between them.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

… his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut

Those of us who eat beef and bread and drink beer … will have to drop his knife and fork and take up the chopsticks.

Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be in the interest of the American free laborer or for the servile laborer from China... You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beer, alongside a man who can live on rice.