Robert Dale Owen famous quotes

07-18-2025

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Hands #Safety #Citizens
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.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Believe #Trust No One #May
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Men #Might #Done
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Men #Race #Enlightened
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.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Reality #Names #Battle
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.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Rights #Desire #Relics
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.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Exercise #Sea #Law
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Men #Ethos #Bravery
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Adventure #Aquariums #Noble
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Leadership #Men #Emergencies
The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Worship #Worst #Idolatry
It is idle to await unanimity.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Idle
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Evil #Decision #Mankind
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Slavery
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?
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Past #Roots #People
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

#Cutting #Exercise #Government
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
-- Robert Dale Owen

#Men #Unjust #Dangerous

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