No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, however contented, never know. [ Cowper ]
Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;
Britons never shall be slaves. [ Thomson ]
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]
Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]
He is the free man whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides. [ William Cowper ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Greatness, with private men
Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse;
And we, whom from our high births they conclude
The only free men, are the only slaves:
Happy the golden mean. [ Massinger ]
Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise.
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves. [ La Fontaine ]
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]
And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]
Diamonds are not only dug for, but sometimes worn by slaves! [ Richter ]
The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. [ Diogenes ]
Possession makes tyrants of some men whom desire made slaves. [ Brignicourt ]
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. [ Joseph Joubert ]
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. [ Condorcet ]
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [ W. Pitt ]
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. [ Longfellow ]
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. [ Alfred de Musset ]
The ambitious do not belong to themselves: they are the slaves of the world.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. [ Horace ]
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. [ Professor Vinet ]
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. [ Colton ]
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]