Samuel Morse Quotes
First, shut your gates.
The brilliant inventor of the telegraph had a dark side. He was a virulent Catholic hater and a paranoid opponent of immigration. He was one of the leading political figures expressing these views and the author of several major publications including the one this quotation comes from.
Samuel Morse, 1791-1872, Inventor, President, American Protestant Union, The Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States Through Foreign Immigration, 1835
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Quote often cited by gun enthusiasts as a Biblical urging to be armed for self-protection and protection of the home. Likewise they argue that gun control is not only bad policy but against the will of God.
Internal population movement was tightly controlled in China for fear that the huge body of rural peasants would swamp, seeking economic opportunity, the cities. In 2000 the Chinese were debating the wisdom of this policy. See Mau Yushi. “Rice Bowl” is a Chinese euphemistically used to mean “job and and a standard of living.”
For another of his immigration quotes and that of another labor leader, see {639891} and {639896}.
An insight to the culture and norms of the times may be gleaned from the fact that Hoover would have dared write material of this kind to an Italian-American member of Congress.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
