Act Quote by Salmon P. Chase

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

— Salmon P. Chase

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it…

— Salmon P. Chase

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God…

— Salmon P. Chase

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines…

— Salmon P. Chase

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly…

— Salmon P. Chase

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid…

— Salmon P. Chase

States Rights died at Appomattox.

— Salmon P. Chase

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now…

— Salmon P. Chase

All men are born equally free.

— Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

— Salmon P. Chase

“I made this resolution today. I will try to excel in all things yet if I am excelled, without fault of mine, I will…

— Salmon P. Chase