38 Quotes by William H. Seward

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator if the universe.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

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 spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

There is no social life outside of Christendom.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.