"To be truthful (honest) in all declarations is therefore a sacred unconditional command of reason, and not to be limited by any expediency."

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction."

"The Negroes and Americans will hence never be capable of founding an orderly civil society for themselves."

"All men are therefore equal, not in the sense that they are all alike, but in the sense that they all have the same rights and duties."

"The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling."