List of Salmon P. Chase Quotes

What You Have Said, Mr. President, Fully Satisfies Me That You Have Given To Every Proposition Which Has Been Made, A Kind And Candid Consideration. And You Have Now Expressed The Conclusion To Which You Have Arrived, Clearly And Distinctly.

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.

Once I Should Have Been, If Not Satisfied, Partially, At Least, Contented With Suffrage For The Intelligent And Those Who Have Been Soldiers; Now I Am Convinced That Universal Suffrage Is Demanded By Sound Policy And Impartial Justice.

What Can Be Indissoluble If A Perpetual Union, Made More Perfect, Is Not?

The Legal Tender Quality [of Money] Is Only Valuable For The Purposes Of Dishonesty.

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.

The Way To Resumption Is To Resume.

If Congress Sees Fit To Impose A Capitation, Or Other Direct Tax, It Must Be Laid In Proportion To The Census; If Congress Determines To Impose Duties, Imposts, And Excises, They Must Be Uniform Throughout The United States. These Are Not Strictly Limitations Of Power. They Are Rules Prescribing The Mode In Which It Shall Be Exercised... This Review Shows That Personal Property, Contracts, Occupations, And The Like Have Never Been Regarded By Congress As Proper Subjects Of Direct Tax.

How Wrong It Is For Those Who Love, Not To Express Their Love.

No More Slave States And No More Slave Territory.

The Constitution, In All Its Provisions, Looks To An Indestructible Union Composed Of Indestructible States.