There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored… — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel… — Hippolytus of Rome Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image