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> [It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/it-is-within-your-power-at-this-very-moment-not-only-to-consumate-an/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

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## More by Robert Dale Owen

> [Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/can-you-look-forward-to-the-future-of-our-country-and-imagine-any/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/after-voluntary-exertions-on-the-part-of-our-people-to-which-the/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/in-days-when-the-public-safety-is-imminently-threatened-and-the-fate/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/property-that-endangers-the-safety-of-a-nation-should-not-be-suffered/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/wisdom-prudence-forethought-these-are-essential-but-not-second-to/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/the-dangers-which-threaten-us-are-twofold-first-from-the-confederate/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/men-acquiesce-in-a-thousand-things-once-righteously-and-boldly-done/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/property-in-man-always-morally-unjust-has-become-nationally-dangerous/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/how-few-since-the-foundation-of-the-world-have-found-themselves-in-a/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/they-feel-assured-as-to-yourself-that-if-the-option-remain-with-you/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/fulfill-you-can-far-more-than-fulfill-the-brightest-anticipations-of/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/boldness-and-decision-command-often-even-in-evil-the-respect-and/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/the-worship-of-words-is-more-pernicious-than-the-worship-of-images/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/in-the-due-exercise-of-your-official-power-in-strictest-accordance/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

> [We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dale-owen/we-can-constitutionally-extirpate-slavery-at-this-time/)

[Robert Dale Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dale-owen/)

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