"States Rights died at Appomattox." — Salmon P. Chase
"States Rights died at Appomattox."
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21 Quotes by Salmon P. Chase
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- What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
- If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the…
- My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It…
- The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by…
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- I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were…
- Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who…
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