#con

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

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I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#conservative #everyday #i #look #lots

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#birth certificate #book #called #certificate #child

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. ↗

— Anne Seward

#being #being happy #content #distinguished #happy

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #constitution #constitutional #law #must

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man. ↗

— William H. Seward

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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for. ↗

— William H. Seward

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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

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I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted. ↗

— William H. Seward

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