The outrage upon the rights of our present slave population originated in Africa.
— from American Slave Trade Or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers take Free People from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic by Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834

It is only under the rule of one prince that the parts of humanity are well adapted to their whole, as may easily be collected from what we have said; therefore it is only by being under one Princedom, or the rule of a single Prince, that humanity as a whole is well adapted to the Universe, or its Prince, who is the One God.
— from Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Nor does that demand rest only upon the realities of our present relation to that Lord, but it goes back to the past facts on which our present relation rests.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren