Roger B. Taney Quotes
For all the great purposes for which the Federal government was established, we are one people, with one common country, we are all citizens of the United States.
Roger B. Taney, 1777-1864, Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, U. S. Treasury Secretary, Quoted in Samuel Freeman Miller, Slaughter House Cases, U. S. Supreme Court, 1873
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