Social & Racial Sayings

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.

I have taken vengeance for my race.

The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.

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.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Nothing is created, either in the operations of art, or in those of nature; and it may be considered as a general principle that in every operation there exists an equal quantity of matter before and after the operation.

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are…