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