The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.

It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] 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.

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.

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.