
1780s, Letter to R. Lushington (1786)
1780s, Letter to Reverend Doctor Price (1785)
1780s, Letter to R. Lushington (1786)
"The Women Behind the Men" https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/opinion/22collins.html? by Gail Collins in the The New York Times, September 22, 2007
We would not have been the bastion of freedom we have been in the twentieth century.
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A
The Drapier's Letters, letter iv (13 October, 1724)
“Act well and properly, less to please others, more to keep your own self-respect.”
Handle gut und anständig, weniger anderen zu gefallen, eher um deine eigene Achtung nicht zu verscherzen.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
Source: 1990s, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), p. 106
Context: These soldiers were using the word slavery in the same way that Americans in 1776 had used it to describe their subordination to Britain. Unlike many slaveholders in the age of Thomas Jefferson, Confederate soldiers from slaveholding families expressed no feelings of embarrassment or inconsistency in fighting for their own liberty while holding other people in slavery. Indeed, white supremacy and the right of property in slaves were at the core of the ideology for which Confederate soldiers fought.
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A
“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 84