[Slave] trade. . . is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish. . . liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]. . . . It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.