
1920s, Unveiling of Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, (Oct. 15, 1924)
As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319090912/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA333#v=onepage&q&f=false (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 333
1860s, Speech (June 1862)
1920s, Unveiling of Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, (Oct. 15, 1924)
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils.”
Preface
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Context: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
Interview https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/01/winston-churchill-new-statesman-archive with Kingsley Martin for the New Statesman (7 January 1939)
The 1930s
Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
1920s
“The idea which pervades our Constitution; that all men of every race are equal before the laws.”
Source: Speech (June 1853), p. 79
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 1
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
“A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.”
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Context: The failure in public and in private life thus to treat each man on his own merits, the recognition of this government as being either for the poor as such or for the rich as such, would prove fatal to our Republic, as such failure and such recognition have always proved fatal in the past to other republics. A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections. As soon as it becomes government by a class or by a section, it departs from the old American ideal.
Argument as defense attorney during the trial of an African-American criminal defendant, Auburn, New York (July 1846), published in Works of William H. Seward, vol. I (New York: Redfield, 1853), p. 417.
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 282
Reply in the Senate to William H. Seward (29 February 1860), Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol. As quoted in The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 6, pp. 277–84. Transcribed from the Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 916–18.
1860s