David Hume — "Our judgements concerning moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentimen…"

"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 thou…"

"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 may venture to affirm, that there is nothing in itself more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sen…"

"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish."

"I am sensible, that, in order to make a man a good cavaller, 'tis not sufficient to teach him to ride; he must have a good horse."