Robert Dale Owen Quotes
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
