More From Benjamin F. Wade
- "I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up."
- "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."
More In Power
- "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."― Albert Einstein
- "There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come."― Everett Dirksen
- "The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."― Thomas Mann