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Robert Owen
 
Date of birth: 14 May 1771
Date of death: 17 November 1858
Country Of Origin: Wales
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Philanthropist

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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? "

Robert Dale Owen
" And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Extirpate the blighting curse, a living threat throughout long years past, that has smitten at last with desolation a land to which God had granted everything but wisdom and justice. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Forgive what may seem cut speech if I say that, in my judgment, a President with a just sense of duty has no option in such a case. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Give back to the nation its hope and faith in a future of peace and undisturbed properity. "

Robert Dale Owen
" Gradually, you can deprive him of these; and for every hundred thousand productive laborers he loses, you may have a hundred thousand soldiers. "

Robert Dale Owen
" How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! "

Robert Dale Owen
" I believe you to be upright, singlehearted in your desire to rescue the country in the hour of her utmost need without after-thought of the personal consequences to yourself. "

Robert Dale Owen
" 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? "

Robert Dale Owen
" In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. "

Robert Dale Owen
" 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. "

Robert Dale Owen
" It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. "

Robert Dale Owen
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