Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.