All Robert Dale Owen Quotes
- 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… Adopt
- 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… Aid
- 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… Bear
- We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Constitutionally
- Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. Boldness
- It is idle to await unanimity. Await
- The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. Idolatry
- Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. Citizens
- Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. All
- Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. Adventure
- 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… Bravery
- 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… Accordance
- 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… Any
- Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face… Anticipation
- 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,… Act
- Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. Acquiesce
- Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. Always Morally
- 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… Any
- 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,… Act
- It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. Been
- 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,… Cannot Legally
- They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and… Assured
- How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high… Environed
- If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast… Afraid