Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

He who saith “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

The Slavs like liberty; they cannot bear unlimited rulers, and are not easily brought to submission

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

We have the power to turn against our creators.

You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

We were not designed to be dominated.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.