Salmon P. Chase Quotes

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• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
• How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.
• States Rights died at Appomattox.
• True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being…
• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.
• The way to resumption is to resume.
• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to…
• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly,…
• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts…
• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which…
• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected…
• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I…
• No more slave States and no more slave territory.
• No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should…
• All men are born equally free.
• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully…
• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration.…
• The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is…
• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

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