"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights." — William H. Seward
"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
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William H. Seward
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31 Quotes by William H. Seward
William H. Seward has 31 quotes on this site.
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish…
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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…
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that…
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern…
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if…
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing…
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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…
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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…
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to…
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
— Jane Austen
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than…
— David Bailey
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
— James M. Barrie
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