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23 quotes by Robert Dale Owen

Robert Dale Owen from Who-When-What Book, 1900 Daguerreotype of Robert Dale Owen c. 1840s Robert Dale Owen (November 7, 1801 – June 24, 1877) was 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.
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the... →

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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:... →

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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... →

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now... →

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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is... →

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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

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It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

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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... →

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It is idle to await unanimity.

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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

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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... →

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They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of... →

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