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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free. [Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt.] - Jean Bodinus (Bodin) bk. I, ch. V Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave. - Lord John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell, Lives of Chief Justices (vol. II, p. 418) No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase, Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. - David Christy, Title of Book, pub. 1855 It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3), in the British House of Commons Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Republica (I, 44) He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI) I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, l. 29) Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, l. 40) No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. - Frederick Douglass Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. - Frederick Douglass The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. - Frederick Douglass While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. - Albert Einstein I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. - David Garrick, Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled. - William Lloyd Garrison, adopted by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Fanueil Hall The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. - Henry George, Social Problems (ch. V) Cotton is King. - James Henry Hammond (2), a phrase used in the U.S. Senate The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal. - James Henry Hammond (2), in a speech in the U.S. Senate Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 392), (Pope's translation) But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. - Thomas Jefferson Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself. - Abraham Lincoln I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. - Abraham Lincoln, in a speech In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. - Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress [England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. - Capel Lofft, Reports (p. 2, Margrave's Argument) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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