“When annual elections end, there slavery begins.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1770s, Thoughts on Government (1776)
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Giles Rooke (1743–1808) British judge (1743-1808)
Trial of Redhead alias Yorke (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1081.
Kailash Satyarthi (1954) Indian children's rights activist
Interview with Nobel Media (2014)
Context: We are going to organise End Child Slavery Week from 19th November to 25th November, and that would be an annual event which we would be organising every year on different aspects of child slavery, and this year we are demanding to the international community that the abolition of child slavery must be incorporated into the post-millennium development goal or the sustainable development goal. So that would be the emphasis of this year's End Child Slavery Week.
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
Source: The Golden Apple
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Context: The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”
Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine Histories
Comincionsi le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
Variant translation: Wars are begun at will but not ended at will.
Book III, Chapter 7.
Florentine Histories (1526)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html) <br class="br">Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. <br class="br">Source: Their Finest Hour
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 165
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.