Silver Purchase Act

The Silver Purchase Act may refer to one of two federal laws of the United States:

  • The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
  • The American Silver Purchase Act of 1934

Famous quotes containing the words silver, purchase and/or act:

    “I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    “How happy a thing were a wedding,
    And a bedding,
    If a man might purchase a wife
    For a twelvemonth and a day;”
    —Thomas Flatman (1637–1688)

    “—the main jet
    Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest

    In the act of rising, until
    The very wish of water is reversed,”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)