"Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves."

"Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt."

"If my present theme were the institution of slavery in general, I should endeavour to show that it has been a mighty …"

"Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he hol…"

"Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery."

"I Shall not pause to consider whether my Opinion will be popular or unpopular with the Slave Holders, or Slave Trader…"

"The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar institutions is to deny the self-evident truth…"

"Slavery must have differed in details in one country from that in another, but after all, it was shameful in Brazil, …"

"I did more for the Russian serf in giving him land as well as personal liberty, than America did for the negro slave …"

"Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus."