"I have not ceased to be a whole-hearted admirer of the American experiment."

"I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was ca…"

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body a…"

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