It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
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"There is nothing in itself valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, but as it acquires these attributes from the mind of the person who surveys it."
"Our judgements concerning moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiment, and not from reason."
"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, is an entire absence of all external impediments of motion."
"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."
"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. …"
Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences, from Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Date: 1742
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