The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.