Taney Quotes

#1. All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats.

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. It's important to look at the big picture of life, as long as it's not through a small screen

Benny Bellamacina

#3. It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

Roger B. Taney

#4. In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm ... has no share in the sovereignty.

Roger B. Taney

#5. Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

Mike Dirnt

#6. In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Roger B. Taney

#7. We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

Roger Brooke Taney

#8. It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I

Lawana Blackwell

#9. Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

#10. Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Roger B. Taney

#11. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

Roger Brooke Taney

#12. A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

Roger B. Taney

#13. Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

Roger B. Taney

#14. Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

Roger B. Taney

#15. They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

Roger Brooke Taney

#16. What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Roger B. Taney

#17. I only work with the best.

Donald J. Trump

#18. We give up too soon.

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#19. I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

Asafa Powell