 We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them.  The Review of Reviews - Page 175edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William D. Harpine - 2005 - 244 pages
...We have begged, and they have mocked, and our calamity came." Bryan now moved to a higher challenge: "We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them." 5' This passage was not an attempt at compromise. It was a call to action, made necessary, Bryan implied,... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 2006 - 256 pages
...have been disregarded. We have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no more. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them!" The crowd thundered its approval. Even some of the gold delegates, caught in the riptide of Bryan's rhetoric,... | |
 | William Letwin - 438 pages
...our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more, we petition...We defy them. The gentleman from Wisconsin has said that he fears a Robespierre. My friends, in this land of the free you need not fear that a tyrant will... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek, Matthew Glassman - 2007 - 464 pages
...our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them!14 From this point forward, Bryan was cheered at almost every pause in his delivery. As he worked... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 451 pages
...our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them.3 The "we" Bryan spoke for was the people, but especially the people of the West (he gestured... | |
 | Richard Franklin Bensel - 2008 - 312 pages
...our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them! The Atlanta Constitution reported that this "denunciation, uttered in Mr. Bryan's most dramatic manner,... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1925 - 910 pages
...and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more; we defy them!" " You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that... | |
 | 1923 - 880 pages
...upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. . . . We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them. . . . This is a struggle between the idle holders of idle wealth and the struggling masses who produce... | |
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