Salmon P. Chase famous quotes

03-18-2025

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Country #Mistake #Agency
States Rights died at Appomattox.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#War #Rights #States
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Money #Quality #Purpose
No more slave States; no slave Territories.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Territory #Slave #States
No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Strong #People #Coins
No more slave States and no more slave territory.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Slavery #Territory #Slave
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Intelligent #Justice #Soldier
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#White #Office #Black
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Men #Law #Titles
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Country #Mistake #Agency
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Occupation #Uniforms #United States
What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Perfect #Unions #Made
The way to resumption is to resume.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Way #Resumes #Resumption
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Looks #Unions #Constitution
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Men #Color #Rights
How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Love You
All men are born equally free.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Men #Equality #Born
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
-- Salmon P. Chase

#Men #Graves #Resignation

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