William Seward: “Truth, however unpalatable, or however it may be obscured for a season, must eventually triumph.”

Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.

Fellow-citizens: There are moments in the progress of time which are the counters of whole ages.

I still hold the same opinions; and, although highly respecting the purity of intention of those who object, on constitutional grounds, to the exercise of this power, it is with heartfelt satisfaction that I perceive those objections…

And a people which should deliberately, by the organization of its authorized power, deprive itself of the faculty of multiplying its own blessings, would be as wise as a creator who should undertake to constitute a human being without a…