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Slave Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are…
- The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are…
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only…
- The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,…
- No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it…
- A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
- A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one…
- A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
- If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have…
- The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even…
- The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law…
More Slave Quotes
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. — Steven Adler
- The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard