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Type: Politician Quotes Category: American Politician Quotes Date of Birth: January 13, 1808 Date of Death: May 7, 1873 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Salmon P. Chase Related Authors: Benjamin Franklin Adlai E. Stevenson Donald Rumsfeld Jon Porter Tim Bishop Bill Frist John C. White Al From |
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase All men are born equally free. Salmon P. Chase 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. Salmon P. Chase 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. 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 I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. Salmon P. Chase The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise. Salmon P. Chase The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. Salmon P. Chase 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. 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 is written, and to stand by it with all my heart. Salmon P. Chase What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not? 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 consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly. Salmon P. Chase |
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