Class Quote by William H. Seward

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

— William H. Seward

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

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

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

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

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

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

— William H. Seward

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

Revolutions never go backward.

— William H. Seward

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

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

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

— William H. Seward