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William H. Seward has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…
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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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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish…
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can…
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It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
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The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But…
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced…
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I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which…
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on…
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True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship…
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There can be no stewardship without stewards.
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At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is…
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