The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.
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.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.