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“The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world. The children and the aged and infirm, work not at all, and yet have all the comforts and necessaries of life provided for them. They enjoy liberty, because they are opposed neither by care nor labor.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 29

“The failure of laissez-faire, of political economy, is admitted now by its last and lingering votary. Free society stands condemned by the unanimous testimony of all its enlightened members.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 74

“No one will contend that negroes, for instance, should roam at large in puris naturalibus, with the apes and tigers of Africa, and ‘worry and devour each other.’ Nor are they fitted for an Athenian democracy. What form of government short of domestic slavery will suit their wants and capacities?”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 171

“All concur that free society is a failure. We slaveholders say you must recur to domestic slavery, the oldest, the best and most common form of Socialism. The new schools of Socialism promise something better, but admit, to obtain that something, they must first destroy and eradicate man’s human nature.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 72

“Men are not ‘born entitled to equal right! It would be far nearer the truth to say, ‘that some were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them’—and the riding does them good.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 179

“Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 70

“In the last place, the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst, they would be far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 84

“We, aided by the Socialists, will try to make it understood by others. Philosophy cannot justify the relation between the free laborer and the idle, irresponsible employer. But ‘tis easy to justify that between master and slave. Their obligations are mutual and equal, and if the master will superintend and provide for the slave in sickness, in health, infancy, and old age—if he will feed and clothe him properly, guard his morals, and treat him kindly and humanely.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 125-126

“Naturally, Southerners, like slaveholders, are liberal and public spirited.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 186

“Socialism proposes to do away with free competition; to afford protection and support at all times to the laboring class; to bring about, at least, a qualified community of property, and to associated labor. All these purposes, slavery fully and perfectly attains.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 48

“A Southern farm is a sort of joint stock concern, or social phalastery, in which the master furnishes the capital and skill, and the slaves the labor, and divide the profits, not according to each one’s in-put, but according to each one’s wants and necessities.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 48

“None but lawyers and historians are aware how much of truth, justice and good sense, there is in the notions of the Communists, as to the community of property. Laying no stress on the too abstract proposition that Providence gave the world not to one man, or set of men, but to all mankind, it is a fact that all governments, in civilized countries, recognize the obligation to support the poor, and thus, in some degree, make all property a common possession.”

George Fitzhugh

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 47