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Men Quotes by Robert Dale Owen
- Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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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