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Robert Dale Owen quotes

Ocupation: American Politician

Life: November 7, 1801 - June 24, 1877

Birthday: November 7

Death: June 24

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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Topics: Hands, Safety, Citizens

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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Topics: Believe, Trust No One, May, Darkest Hour

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Topics: Men, Might, Done

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.

Topics: Men, Race, Enlightened, Statesmanship

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

Topics: Reality, Names, Battle, Human Freedom

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

Topics: Rights, Desire, Relics, Feudal System

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

Topics: Exercise, Sea, Law

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.

Topics: Men, Ethos, Bravery, Confederate

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Topics: Adventure, Aquariums, Noble, Forethought

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Topics: Leadership, Men, Emergencies

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

source: - Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102

Topics: Worship, Worst, Idolatry

It is idle to await unanimity.

Topics: Idle, Unanimity

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Topics: Evil, Decision, Mankind, Concurrence

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Topics: Slavery, Hereafter

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Topics: Past, Roots, People, Exertion

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?

Topics: Cutting, Exercise, Government

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Topics: Men, Unjust, Dangerous

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Topics: Responsibility, Wonder, Should

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