Degrees Quote by Lysander Spooner

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

— Ed Davey

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and…

— John Quincy Adams

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion…

— Ayn Rand

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has…

— Marquis de Lafayette

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

— Saint Augustine

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

— John F. Kennedy

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom,…

— David Hume

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that…

— William Blake