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> [A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act-upon-principles-of-justice/)

[Roger B. Taney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-b-taney/)

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## More by Roger B. Taney

> [Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/unquestionably-it-is-the-duty-of-every-master-to-watch-over-the/)

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> [It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/it-is-an-established-principle-of-jurisprudence-in-all-civilized/)

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> [It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/it-will-be-admitted-on-all-hands-that-with-the-exception-of-the/)

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> [A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/a-sovereignty-is-always-presumed-to-act-upon-principles-of-justice/)

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> [Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/every-intelligent-person-whose-life-has-been-passed-in-a-slaveholding/)

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> [What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/what-dred-scott-s-master-might-lawfully-do-with-dred-scott-in-the/)

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> [In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/in-large-commercial-cities-the-money-power-is-i-fear-irresistible-it/)

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> [Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/every-state-has-an-undoubted-right-to-determine-the-status-or/)

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> [In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/in-england-the-sovereignty-resides-exclusively-in-the-person-or/)

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> [Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/thank-god-that-at-least-in-one-place-all-men-are-equal-in-the-church/)

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> [In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave, and he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-b-taney/in-the-greater-number-of-cases-that-have-come-under-my-observation/)

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