Creative Quotations from . . .
William Seward
(1801-1872) born on May 16
US "politician, abolitionist". "He was secretary of state from 1861 to 1869; remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867--referred to at that time as "Seward's Folly.""
 
   
F
No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.

R
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
A
A party [Republican] with one idea; but that is a noble idea . . . the idea of equality -- the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws.
N
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
K
"I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Said to Stephen Douglas; in "2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions," by Edmund Fuller, 1970."
R: "In "2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs," by Edward F. Murphy, 1981."
A: "In "The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases," by Donald Bolander, 1987."
N: "In "12,000 Religious Quotations," by Frank S. Mead, 1989."
K: "In "Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations," by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987."



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