Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 209 Slavery quotesSlavery QuotesSlavery Next 20 quotes No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another.~ A Bill Concerning Slaves A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.~ Samuel Adams If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.~ Samuel Adams A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.~ Joseph Addison Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.~ Aeschylus Any excuse will serve a tyrant.~ Aesop Better to starve free than be a fat slave.~ Aesop While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.~ Aesop The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.~ Herbert Sebastien Agar The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism and Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of World Government.~ American Mercury Magazine Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin A Fatal Tendency of Mankind. Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing. But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. This is no rash accusation. Nor does it come from a gloomy and uncharitable spirit. The annals of history bear witness to the truth of it: the incessant wars, mass migrations, religious persecutions, universal slavery, dishonesty in commerce, and monopolies. This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man -- in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain.~ Frederic Bastiat Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.~ Isaiah Berlin Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.~ Lawana Blackwell If all were to share alike, and all were to do alike, then all were on an equality throughout, and one was as good as another; and so, if it did not actually abolish those very relations which God himself has set among men, it did at least greatly diminish the mutual respect that is so important should be preserved amongst them. Let none argue that this is due to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of life in itself....~ William Bradford The experience that was had in ... the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent; and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.... For the young men that were most able and fit for labor and service objected that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, without any recompense.... The strong man or the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc., than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labor, food, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger ones, thought it some indignity and disrespect to them.~ William Bradford So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.~ Robert Browning If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.~ John "Birdman" Bryant The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print