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GOVERNMENT > politician, abolitionist > William Seward
A party [Republican]...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
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.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- William Seward, (May 16 1801-1872), 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.