| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. |
| Abraham Lincoln | In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. |
| Abraham Lincoln | In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. |
| Capel Lofft | a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. |
| David Christy | Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. |
| David Garrick | Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. |
| Henry George | The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. |
| James H Hammond | Cotton is King. |
| James H Hammond | 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. |
| Salmon Portland Chase | No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase, |
| Sir James Mansfield | The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | 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, |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | He is sometimes slave who should be master, and sometimes master who should be slave. |
| Homer | Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. |
| James Russell Lowell | 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. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 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. |
| Thomas Moore | Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. |
| William Shakespeare | Base is the slave that pays. |
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