Thaddeus Stevens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Children #Humble #Levels
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 said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Lying #Ambition #Color
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Christian #Names #Tyrants
The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
-- 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.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Law #Government #Quality
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Heart #Patriotic #Men
I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Angel #Men #Answers
I donâ€™t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law andÂ nothing more.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Law
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Men #America #Corruption
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 excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Southern #Might #Firsts
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 be, as it never has been, a true republic.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Opportunity #Government #Southern
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Law #Government #Citizens
I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.
-- Thaddeus Stevens

#Men #Race #Long

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