Air Quote by William Cowper

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

— James Mansfield

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to…

— Albert Camus

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to…

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

— James Thomson

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim…

— Elizabeth Nunez

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

— Charles Bukowski

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads…

— Anthony Daniels

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the…

— Daniel Hannan

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears…

— Henry Charles Carey

Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at…

— Charles Lamb

“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be…

— Charles Darwin