"Fear is the passion of slaves"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"Gifts make slaves"

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"A man in debt is so far a slave"

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action"

"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature"

"I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller"

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy"