Robert Dale Owen Quotes

• Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

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  Hands, Safety, Citizens

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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 restore to freedom a race of men.

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  Men, Race, Enlightened

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• Cumple -puedes cumplir con creces- las más brillantes anticipaciones de quienes, en nombre de la libertad humana, y frente a amenazas que han madurado hasta convertirse en terribles realidades desde entonces, libraron esa batalla que te colocó donde ahora te encuentras.

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  Reality, Names, Battle

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• It is idle to await unanimity.

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  Idle, Unanimity

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• Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

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  Men, Unjust, Dangerous

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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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  Hombres, Hecho, Poder

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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: 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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  Courage, Believe, Trust No One

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• 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.

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  Exercise, Sea, Law

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• La sabiduría, la prudencia, la previsión, son esenciales. Pero no en segundo lugar a éstos ese valor noble que aventura la derecha, y deja las consecuencias a dios.

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  Courage, Adventure, Aquariums

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• Los hombres siempre siguen de buena gana a un líder audaz: sobre todo, en las grandes emergencias.

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  Leadership, Men, Emergencies

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• The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

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  Worship, Worst, Idolatry

  Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102

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

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  Evil, Decision, Engagement

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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?

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  Cutting, Exercise, Government

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• If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

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  Responsibility, Wonder, Should

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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 idle to deny.

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  Men, Ethos, Bravery

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• Y por la presente declaro clara y enfáticamente que me considero, y deseo fervientemente que otros me consideren, totalmente despojado, ahora y durante el resto de mi vida, de tales derechos, reliquias bárbaras de un sistema feudal y despótico.

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  Rights, Desire, Feudal System

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• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

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  Slavery, Hereafter

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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 remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

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  Past, Roots, People

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