Salmon P. Chase Quotes

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

All men are born equally free.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?