"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."

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Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.59, University of Pittsburgh Pre

Thaddeus Stevens

#Southern Quotes #Might Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.”
“Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.”
“My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.”
“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”
“You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.”
“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.”
“We in the 25th hour, It's now or never. We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever. In the end, time waits for no man... What's your plan?”
“I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.”

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