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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. David Christy—Title of Book, pub. 1855. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hammond)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Winston Churchill in the British House of Commons. Feb. 22, 1906. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit. Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. Cicero—DeRepublica. I. 44. Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus. He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. Cicero—Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro. XI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = Cowper | work = Task. | place = Bk. II. L. 29. | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. | author = Cowper | work = Task. | place = Bk. II. L. 40. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Campbell}}) | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Emerson—The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech. May 26, 1856. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. | author = David Garrick | work = Prologue to Ed. Moore's Gamesters. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Wm. Lloyd Garrison—Adopted by the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society. Fanueil Hall. Jan. 27, 1843. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. Henry George—Social Problems. Ch. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. James H. Hammond—Speech in the U. S. Senate. March, 1858. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Cotton is King. James H. Hammond. Phrase used in the Senate, March, 1858. Gov. Manning of South Carolina, Speech at Columbia, S. C. (1858) (gee aIg0 CHHISTr ) Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XVTI. L. 392 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Abraham Lincoln—Speech. June 17, 1858. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. Abraham Lincoln—Annual Message to Congress. Dec. 1, 1862. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 715 }} 