Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.