Salmon P. Chase Quotes

• True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Rights, Color

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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

  Salmon P. Chase

  Country, Mistake, Agency

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Religious, Book, Teaching

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• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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

  Men, Law, Titles

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• All men are born equally free.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Equality, Men, Born

  "A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or State of Pennsylvania", September 28, 1776.

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• States Rights died at Appomattox.

  Salmon P. Chase

  War, Rights, States

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• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Slavery, Territory, Slave

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention), 1922.

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• No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Strong, People, Defense

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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Country, Mistake, Agency

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• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Looks, Unions, Constitution

  Texas v. White (1869)

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• How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Love, Love You

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• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  Salmon P. Chase

  United States, Occupation, Uniforms

  "Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 13, 1869.

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• 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

  White, Office, Black

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• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  Salmon P. Chase

  Perfect, Unions, Made

  "Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 12, 1869.

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• The way to resumption is to resume.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Way, Resumes, Resumption

  Letter to Horace Greeley, May 17, 1866.

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• The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Money, Quality, Purpose

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• 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

  Intelligent, Should Have, Justice

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• No more slave States; no slave Territories.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Territory, Slave, States

  "Platform of the Free Soil National Convention". 1848.

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• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Graves, Resignation

  "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.

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• 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

  President, Kind, Consideration

  Salmon P. Chase (2015). “Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet; The Civil War Diaries Of Salmon P. Chase”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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