"The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is b…"

"I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. …"

"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."

"The greater the object, the less it can be conceived by the imagination."

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, is an entire absence of all external impediments of motion."