Top 17 Quotes by 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.

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

You can never conquer us, we will die first.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

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.

Well, what are you going to do about it?

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.