Robert Dale Owen
Robert Dale Owen
Robert Dale Owenwas a Scottish-born American social reformer who was a longtime exponent in the United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party. He served in Congress, where he successfully pushed through the Smithsonian Institution bill and served on the first Board of Regents...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 November 1801
Robert Dale Owen quotes about
hands safety citizens
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
reality names battle
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.
responsibility wonder should
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?
rights desire feudal-system
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.
exercise sea law
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.
adventure aquariums noble
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
leadership men emergencies
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
worship worst idolatry
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
idle unanimity
It is idle to await unanimity.
evil decision mankind
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
slavery hereafter
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
past roots people
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?
cutting exercise government
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?
assured country forward future imagine permanent state
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.