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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free.

Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.

No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase,

Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.

It could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled. - William Lloyd Garrison,

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Cotton is King.

The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.