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. SewardBut 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. SewardThe 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