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Slavery: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
No more slave States and no more slave territory.— SALMON P. CHASE — Resolutions Adopted
at the Free-Soil National Convention. Aug. 9, 1848. 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.— COWPER — The 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.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. II. L. 40.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.— DAVID GARRICK — Prologue to
ED. 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.— WM. LLOYD GARRISON — Adopted by the
Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, Fanueil Hall. Jan. 27, 1843. 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.
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 H. HAMMOND — Speech in the
U. S. Senate. March, 1858.
Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XVII. L. 392.
Pope's trans. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.— ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Speech. June 17,
1858. 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. Dec. 1, 1862. A soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.— LOFFT — Reports. P. 2. Margrave's
Argument. May 14, 1772. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; * * * * * * They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.— LOWELL — Stanzas on Freedom.
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XII. L. 64.
Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.— MOORE — To the Lord Viscount Forbes,
written from the City of Washington. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.— ROBERT PAINE — Ode. Adams and
Liberty. 1798. Base is the slave that pays. S.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 100.
You have among you many a purchas'd slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 90.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I still thou art a bitter draught.— STERNE — The Sentimental Journey. The
Passport. The Hotel at Paris. By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.— CHAS. SUMNER — The Anti-Slavery
Enterprise. Address at New York. May 9, 1859. Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be.— CHAS. SUMNER — Slavery and the
Rebellion. Speech before the New York Young Men's Republican Union. Nov. 5, 1864. They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.— ROGER B. TANEY — The Dred Scott Case. See HOWARD'S Rep. Vol. XIX.
P. 407. Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary.
Slaves. I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.— GEORGE WASHINGTON — Farewell
Address. That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called the Slave-trade.— JOHN WESLEY — Journal. Feb. 12, 1792.
A Christian! going, gone! Who bids for God's own image?-for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won?— WHITTIER — Voices of Freedom. The
Christian Slave. Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves-in a land of light and law! Slaves-crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war!— WHITTIER — Voices of Freedom. Stanzas.
What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!— WHITTIER — Voices of Freedom. Stanzas.
Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit. Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.— CICERO — De Republica. I. 44.
Nemo liber est, qui corpori servit. No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. XCII.