The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
