The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection

If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

We are the controller of technology. If we become slaves to technology, then that’s not good.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.