Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Cass

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Last updated on April 19, 2025.

Lewis Cass was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. A slaveowner himself, he was a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery.

American - Soldier | October 9, 1782 - June 17, 1866

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Lewis Cass

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Lewis Cass

Men meet; mountains, never.

Lewis Cass

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Lewis Cass

Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.

Lewis Cass

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Cass

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