Benjamin F. Wade Quotes

You can never conquer us, we will die first. - Benjamin F. Wade

Well, what are you going to do about it? - Benjamin F. Wade

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us. - Benjamin F. Wade

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. - Benjamin F. Wade

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming. - Benjamin F. Wade

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. - Benjamin F. Wade

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. - Benjamin F. Wade

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. - Benjamin F. Wade

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. - Benjamin F. Wade

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. - Benjamin F. Wade

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