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William H. Seward has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…
• Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
• But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…
• But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right…
• The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
• The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
• I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…
• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had…

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