Author: Benjamin F. Wade

Quotes

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

- Benjamin F. Wade

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

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

- Benjamin F. Wade

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

- Benjamin F. Wade

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.

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.

- Benjamin F. Wade

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