Quote#Freedom
Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power?…
Quote byHarriet Beecher Stowe · 1811–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Concluding Remarks.
English (original)
Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be?
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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