Benjamin F. Wade Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.”

“I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.”

“Well, what are you going to do about it?”

“I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.”

“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.”