Reign Quote by William C. Bryant

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

— Aeschylus

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

— Diogenes

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

— Jose Rizal

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

— Milton Sapirstein

“Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human…

— Jamaica Kincaid

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“And so, if only we are willing to withdraw our necks from the yoke, we can keep as stout a heart against such terrors…

— Seneca

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

— John Adams

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

— John Milton

“It is our privilege as human beings to live either as Warriors or slaves. A Warrior is the master of his fate. No matter…

— Robert S. de Ropp