"The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler"

"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"

"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"

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

"Gifts make slaves"

"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves"

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves"

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God"

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"