Edmund Burke Quotes

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

This is about slavery.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

Every slave is a stolen man.

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

The end of slavery is the profit of the master …. The slave is doomed to toil, that others may reap the fruits.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

Slavery can never be abolished.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.