Top 68 Quotes About Seward
#1. The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America's history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his most three prolific cabinet members: Chase, Seward and Stanton.
Darin Gibby
#2. Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. Etiquette, Seward had once told Jamison, was all that mattered. Ideologies waxed and waned, religions developed and eroded, political parties rose and fell from power. Only courtesy remained one of the few things valued by all civilized men.
Connie Brockway
#4. How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur. DR.
Bram Stoker
#5. Weed was confident that the British would have no idea anything was amiss with Seward's presidential aspirations and would treat him with the respect afforded to the next leader of the Americans.
Anonymous
#6. By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#7. I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
Henry Villard
#8. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.
Henry Adams
#9. If I ever fall in love with a werewolf," Veronica said, as she stared at a drunken wedding guest being escorted out of Seward Park, "shoot me."
"Famous last words.
Kristin Miller
#10. Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.
Gore Vidal
#11. To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton
#12. I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
Stone Gossard
#13. One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#14. Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.
Dennis Miller
#15. But then, six months ago, my dad hauled me with him to this shaddy town in Alaska. Seward Peninsula, just below Arctic Circle? And then, middle of May - we flew to Fairbanks on a prop plane, and then we came here.
Donna Tartt
#16. It soon became clear, however, that Abraham Lincoln would emerge the undisputed captain of this most unusual cabinet, truly a team of rivals. The powerful competitors who had originally disdained Lincoln became colleagues who helped him steer the country through its darkest days. Seward
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#17. 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.
William H. Seward
#18. I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
William H. Seward
#19. Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
Thomas Seward
#20. I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William H. Seward
#21. Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
Anna Seward
#22. The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. Seward
#24. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
Anna Seward
#25. Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anna Seward
#26. But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
William H. Seward
#27. Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
Desmond Seward
#28. 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
#29. But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward
#30. 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.
William H. Seward
#31. But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
#32. If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.
Elmer Seward
#33. I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
William H. Seward
#34. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
Elmer Seward
#35. If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
William H. Seward
#36. A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Anna Seward
#38. This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
Tennessee Williams
#39. I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
#40. The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
William H. Seward
#41. Duck wasn't sure if it was optimism or fantasy, but hope had been such uncharted waters for him recently that he was having difficulty navigating them.
Elmer Seward
#42. Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?
William H. Seward
#43. Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
Thomas Seward
#44. Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
William H. Seward
#45. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
William H. Seward
#46. It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
William H. Seward
#48. If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
Anna Seward
#49. It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
William H. Seward
#50. I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
William H. Seward
#52. The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward
#53. The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William Seward
#54. I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
William H. Seward
#55. Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
Elmer Seward
#56. We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
William H. Seward
#57. No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.
William H. Seward
#58. 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.
William H. Seward
#59. There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward
#60. Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
Anna Seward
#61. A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws.
William H. Seward
#62. 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
#63. It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
William H. Seward
#64. To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
Anna Seward
#66. They say that people come into our lives for a lifetime, a season or a reason.
Jeanie Seward-Magee
#67. The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
#68. Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
Anna Seward
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