Quote by Edmund Burke
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. - Edmund Burke

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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