Casts Quote by Thaddeus Stevens

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them…

— Thaddeus Stevens

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by…

— Thaddeus Stevens

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the…

— Thaddeus Stevens

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

— Thaddeus Stevens

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

— Thaddeus Stevens

Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children…

— Thaddeus Stevens

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

— Thaddeus Stevens

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

— Thaddeus Stevens

“Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I…

— Thaddeus Stevens

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false…

— Thaddeus Stevens

“kill trhe beast before it kills you”

— thaddeus stevens