White Population Quotes by Roger B. Taney

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Roger B. Taney has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even…
• In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest…
• Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory…
• It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States,…
• It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or…
• A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a…
• Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it…
• Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of…
• In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,…
• Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give…

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