Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
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
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…
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between th… - Thaddeus Stevens
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between th…
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