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

— William H. Seward

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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)

There is no social life outside of Christendom.

He is the most gentle-looking and amiable of men. Every word and look indicate sincerity of heart, even to guilelessness.

They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether.

Remember always that the cause of the United States is the cause of human nature.

Letter to Charles F. Adams (1863)

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