Thaddeus Stevens Quotes

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• The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.
• No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
• The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can…
• I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture…
• The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
• I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to…
• The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
• I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

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