Quotes by Roger B. Taney - Page 1

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
Roger B. Taney /
Cities
Corruption
Irresistible
Commercial
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Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.
Roger B. Taney /
Church
Degradation
Equal
Heavenly
Heavenly Father
House
Thank God
God Men Thank God
Side
Consider
Least
Thank
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In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.
Roger B. Taney /
England
Share
Sovereignty
Subjects
Peer
Realm
Resides
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What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.
Roger B. Taney /
Free State
Illinois
May
Might
Free
Any
Master
Other
Scott
Slaves
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A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
Roger B. Taney /
Injury
Mistake
Oversight
Principles
Ready
Sovereignty
Willing
Repair
Supposed
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Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.
Roger B. Taney /
Comfort
Moral
Privilege
Master
Incompatible
Relations
Slaves
Unquestionably
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It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.
Roger B. Taney /
Constitution Of The United States
Exception
Hands
Sovereign
States
United States
Within
Absolutely
People Will Hands
Admitted
Hands People Will
Powers
Respective
Several
Territories
Unconditionally
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Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.
Roger B. Taney /
Capacity
Emancipation
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Population
Absolute
African
Carefully
Observed
Passed
Ruin
Sudden
Whose
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Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.
Roger B. Taney /
Constitution
Constitution Of The United States
Determine
Persons
Territory
Condition
Domestic
Duties
Except
Imposed
Insofar
Obligations
Powers
Restrained
Status
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It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.
Roger B. Taney /
Civilized
Civilized Nations
Consent
Jurisprudence
Nations
Permission
Sovereign
Established
Courts
Defendant
Individuals
Principle
Proper
Sued
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