There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it … - 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 low ambition to have it …
- Thaddeus Stevens
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. - Thaddeus Stevens
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would exci… - Thaddeus Stevens
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would exci…
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
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But …
I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more. - Thaddeus Stevens
I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.
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 wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws. - Thaddeus Stevens
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never b… - Thaddeus Stevens
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never b…
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. - Thaddeus Stevens
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.
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