Robert Dale Owen Quotes

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• There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this…
• The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and…
• After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness…
• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
• It is idle to await unanimity.
• The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
• Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
• Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
• Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
• The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to…
• 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…
• And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during…
• Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face…
• 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,…
• Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
• Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
• Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be…
• In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech,…
• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

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