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{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = [England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in. Lofft—Reports. P. 2. Margrave's Argument. May 14, 1772. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Campbell) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = Lowell | work = Stanzas on Freedom. | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. Lord Mansfield. Said in the case of a negro, James Somersett, carried from Africa to Jamaica and sold. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Campbell) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl. Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. XII. L. 64. . | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. Moore—To the Lord Viscount Forbes. Written from the City of Washington. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. Robert Paine—Ode. Adams and Liberty. (1798) | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Base is the slave that pays. | author = | work = Henry V. | place = Act II. Sc. 1. L. 100. | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You have among you many a purchas'd slave, Which, like your asses and yeur dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts. Because you bought them. Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 90. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do. Bernard Shaw—Man and Superman. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still. Slavery! said I—still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne—Sentimental Journey. The Passport. The Hotel at Paris. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. Chas. Sumner—The Anti-Slavery Enterprise. Address at New York. May 9, 1859. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be. Chas. Sumner—Slavery and the Rebellion. Speech before the New York Young Men's Republican Union. Nov. 5, 1864. They [the blacks] had no rights which the , white man was bound to respect. Roger B. Taney—The Dred Scot Case. See Howard's Rep. VoLXLX. P. 407. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. Voltaire—Philosophical Dictionary. Slaves. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. George Washington—Farewell Address. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called the Slave-trade. John Wesley—Journal. Feb. 12, 1792. A Christian! going, gone! Who bids for God's own image?—for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won? Whittier—Voices of Freedom. The Christian Slave. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves—in a land of light and law! Slaves—crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war! WHrrnER—Voices of Freedom. Stanzas. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven. And bartered as the brute for gold! Whither—Voices of Freedom. Stanzas. SLEEP What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. | author = Addison | work = Cato. Act V. Sc. 1. What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? T. B. Aldrich—Human Ignorance. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! T. B. Aldrich—Invocation to Sleep. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower, From my vain self, and vain things which have power Upon my soul to make me smile or weep. And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep. Patrick Proctor Alexander—Sleep. Appeared in the Spectator. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 716 }}