In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
