It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.