Elections Quote by John Adams

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

— John Quincy Adams

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

— John Adams

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than…

— John Adams

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

— Ulysses S. Grant

No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic…

— David Platt

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

— Dinesh D'Souza

'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery, a new…

— Michelle Alexander

To have one's race brutally treated for so many years, even after the end of slavery and segregation, people are going to rise up…

— Assata Shakur

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

— Gavin Esler

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion, it might…

— Howard Zinn