Carolina QuotesI stand with Jefferson rather than with them, and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of government, and that the banks ought to go out of the governing business.
William Jennings Bryan Carolinian
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Cross of Gold Speech (1896)
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- Cross of Gold Speech
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- 1896
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“I stand with Jefferson rather than with them, and tell them,…” William Jennings Bryan. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-BC2FA5CD72. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/bc2fa5cd72
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