Freedom Quote by Buffalo Bill

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his…

— Eric Gill

Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part…

— William Wells Brown

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the…

— William H. Seward

“With so much new territory to carve into states, the balance of Congressional power became a hot topic in the decade after the purchase,…

— Charles River Editors

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

The state is made for man, not man for the state… That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we…

— Albert Einstein

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They…

— Lysander Spooner

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

— Marvin Harris

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

— Hugo Grotius

“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this…

— Tony Horwitz