I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king

The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.