#in

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#because #i #less #more #now

Truth has two beautiful daughters; their names are skepticism and faith. Skepticism to examine the past to make sure it was not full of lies, and faith to believe that the future won't be full of them also. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#choices #commonsense #decisions #faith #investigation

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain. ↗

— Anna Seward

#fate #my soul #remain #shroud #soul

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing. ↗

— Anne Seward

#drawing #educate #had #i #learn

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

— Anne Seward

#being #being happy #content #distinguished #happy

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ↗

— William H. Seward

#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

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 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

#coming #constitution #foreseen #made #namely

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. ↗

— William H. Seward

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #domain #hold #indeed