"The commerce of slaves in the West Indies, I am informed, is an open market of human flesh, where the unhappy victims are daily exposed to the highest bidder, and where the most sacred ties of nature …"

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of educat…"

"I have no doubt but that the misery of the poor, in great cities, is one of the greatest misfortunes to society."

"Were I to enter on a newspaper, it should be to give the public generally a choice of all the productions of the human mind, which have been published."

"The earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it."