#state

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

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war. ↗

— William H. Seward

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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. ↗

— William H. Seward

#natural #natural rights #rights #states #therefore

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement. ↗

— John Sexton

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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

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Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#curiously #full #life #states #their

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#big #big ideas #certain #certain way #culture

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

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