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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint
eodem momento liberi sunt.]
Author: Jean Bodinus (Bodin)
Source: bk. I, ch. V
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Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air
of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.
Author: Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell
Source: Lives of Chief Justices (vol. II, p. 418)
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
- Salmon Portland Chase,
Author: Salmon Portland Chase
Source: Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention
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Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
Author: David Christy
Source: Title of Book, pub. 1855
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It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of
His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme
acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological
inexactitude.
Author: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
Source: in the British House of Commons
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem
cadit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Republica (I, 44)
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI)
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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.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 29)
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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 40)
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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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
Author: David Garrick
Source: Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters
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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,
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
Source: adopted by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Fanueil Hall
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Author: Henry George
Source: Social Problems (ch. V)
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Cotton is King.
Author: James H. Hammond
Source: a phrase used in the U.S. Senate
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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.
Author: James H. Hammond
Source: in a speech in the U.S. Senate
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Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 392), (Pope's translation)
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: in a speech
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In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: Annual Message to Congress
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[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to
breathe in.
Author: Capel Lofft
Source: Reports (p. 2, Margrave's Argument)
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They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
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They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza)
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every
man is free who breathes it.
Author: Sir James Mansfield
Source: said in the case of a black man, James Somerset, carried from Africa to Jamaica and sold
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 64)
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Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Author: Robert Treat Paine
Source: Ode--Adams and Liberty
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Base is the slave that pays.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pistol at II, i)
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