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

- William H. Seward

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

- 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 the…

- 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

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 mo…

- William H. Seward

Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality of all men before human tribunals and hu…

- William H. Seward

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 i…

- 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 unde…

- William H. Seward

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

- William H. Seward