Thomas Clarkson Quotes

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• Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
• It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
• Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free…
• We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used…
• When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
• There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
• Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour…
• Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it…

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