Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
-- Thaddeus Stevens
   
Thaddeus Stevens   Name:
Thaddeus Stevens
Type:
Politician
Nationality:
American
Birth:
April 4, 1792
Death:
August 11, 1868
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