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Beware of too much explaining, lest we end by too much excusing.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Lectures in Modern History (1906)
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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
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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Born:
January 10, 1834
Died:
June 19, 1902
(aged 68)
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