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.
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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.Robert Dale Owen
We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.
Robert Dale Owen
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
Robert Dale Owen
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen
Gradually, you can deprive him of these and for every hundred thousand productive laborers he loses, you may have a hundred thousand soldiers.
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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?
Robert Dale Owen
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