"Revolutions never go backward." — William H. Seward

"Revolutions never go backward."

— William H. Seward

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31 Quotes by William H. Seward

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

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish…
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never…
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that…
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern…
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if…
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing…
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where…
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to…
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to…

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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss… — Fred Armisen
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. — Bob Beauprez
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your… — Jeff Bezos
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not… — Michael N. Castle
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. — Jean Cocteau
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in… — Jean Cocteau
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi

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