Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 209 Slavery quotesSlavery QuotesSlavery Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel Butler Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?~ Lord Byron [I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.~ Candidus The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.~ Joseph H. Choate Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.~ Sir Winston Churchill Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.~ Henry Clay There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.~ William Kingdon Clifford Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.~ Henry Steele Commager But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.~ William Cowper Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.~ William Cowper No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.~ John Philpot Curran In principle, there are only two fundamental political viewpoints. That is, two contradictory ends of the 'political spectrum.' Those two principles are freedom and slavery.~ Mark Da Cunha It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.~ Estienne de la Boétie Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.~ Louis Charles Alfred de Musset True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.~ Alexis de Tocqueville If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print