Salmon P. Chase Quotes

#1. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

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#2. I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

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#3. No more slave States; no slave Territories.

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#4. What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

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#5. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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

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#7. No more slave States and no more slave territory.

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#8. My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

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#9. A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.

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#10. No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

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#11. All men are born equally free.

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#12. How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

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#13. The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

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#14. The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

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#15. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

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#16. The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

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#17. The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

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#18. Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

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#19. True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

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