Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wadewas a United States Senator during Civil War reconstruction known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 October 1800
CountryUnited States of America
Benjamin F. Wade quotes about
wade code senators
As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
regret men black
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
advocating sentiments
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
heart mind bears
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
men rights ideas
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
men slavery amazed
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
fall men may
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
power sycophants worshippers
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
men liberty funny-travel
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
humiliation overwhelming
The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
communication country evident foot free greatly kept medium precisely pretend unless
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
carries interest lose man property slave state
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.