It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was …

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.