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William H. Seward — Portrait after a picture by Mathew Brady (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician

1801–1872

3 quotes.

Remember always that the cause of the United States is the cause of human nature.
Letter to Charles F. Adams (1863), as quoted in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 2, p. 150.
- America
As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.
On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
- Justice
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.
On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
- Politics
- Virtue

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