Source: The One-Straw Revolution (1975), Chapter 3, p. 119
“The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.”
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John M. Mason
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 625.
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
Edmund Burke
(1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, "If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong" (1864)
Context: Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together.
Source: The One-Straw Revolution
Henry L. Benning
(1814–1875) Confederate Army general
Speech to the Virginia Convention (1861)
Context: These are pregnant statements; they avow a sentiment, a political principle of action, a sentiment of hatred to slavery as extreme as hatred can exist. The political principle here avowed is, that his action against slavery is not to be restrained by the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States. I say, if you can find any degree of hatred greater than that, I should like to see it. This is the sentiment of the chosen leader of the Black Republican party; and can you doubt that it is not entertained by every solitary member of that same party? You cannot, I think. He is a representative man; his sentiments are the sentiments of his party; his principles of political action are the principles of political action of his party. I say, then; it is true, at least, that the Republican party of the North hates slavery.
“You only have one life. Whatever crops up, crops up.”
Jack Steinberger
(1921) Swiss physicist
Interview http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-interview.html with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/.
