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Owen Lovejoy Quotes

d. 1864 United States

Owen Lovejoy (6 January 1811 – 25 March 1864) was an American politician and religious minister during the 19th century. Originally from Maine, he represented the U.S. state of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives.

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The Republican Party is for positive intervention. They propose, as our fathers did, to erect a wall of intervention, of prohibition, and station an angel of liberty at the gates in that wall, who shall keep watch and ward there day and night, and guard the territories against the entrance of slavery, as the cherubim of God kept sin out of Eden.

Speech (1860)

The Constitution is a piece of rotten parchment that ought to be trodden under foot.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Owen Lovejoy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.