I never mean (unless some particular circumstances should compel me to 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 slow, sure, and imperceptible degrees.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
Slaves are probably quite as necessary to civilization as men of genius. The human race seems incapable of becoming civilized en masse. Some one must milk the cows – and milking cows and being civilized appear to be as incompatable as drinking highballs and standing on one’s head.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained, comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondage, […]
Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery.
I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to hold the slave in bondage.
