William Seward: “It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.”

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…

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all--she is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing.

But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.