Slavery Quotes by Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ…

— Lysander Spooner

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any…

— Lysander Spooner

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom…

— Lysander Spooner

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'…

— Lysander Spooner

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish…

— Lysander Spooner

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of…

— Lysander Spooner

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of…

— Lysander Spooner

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to…

— Lysander Spooner

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much…

— Lysander Spooner

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would…

— Lysander Spooner

And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less…

— Lysander Spooner

The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much…

— Lysander Spooner