"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection"

"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"

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

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots"

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"

"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years"