"The question before us is, whether people of……" — Roger B. Taney
"The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."
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Roger B. Taney
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14 Quotes by Roger B. Taney
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No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be…
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They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
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We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law,…
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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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Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and…
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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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