"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become……" — Robert Dale Owen
"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous."
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24 Quotes by Robert Dale Owen
Robert Dale Owen has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to…
- The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to…
- After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is…
- We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
- Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
- It is idle to await unanimity.
- The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
- Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
- Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
- Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves…
- The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless…
- In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the…