“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send them forth to labor and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble the proud traitors.”

About Thaddeus Stevens

Politician • American

Thaddeus Stevens was a prominent American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was one of the most powerful and influential leaders of the Radical...