{"author":"Samuel Morse","author_id":"Samuel+Morse","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.","author":"Samuel Morse","tags":["benevolent","creed","disciplinary","divine","divine-wisdom","sin","slavery","social-condition","subject","wisdom","wise"],"id":879,"author_id":"Samuel+Morse"},{"text":"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.","author":"Samuel Morse","tags":["why","electricity","see "],"id":156116,"author_id":"Samuel+Morse"},{"text":"[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.","author":"Samuel Morse","tags":["communication","country","information","knowledge","neighborhood","nerves","science"],"id":435155,"author_id":"Samuel+Morse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}