Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot ha…

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want t…