“If we are not represented, we are slaves.”
Report on the Sugar Act (13 June 1764).
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“We know each other, these slaves and we.”
A Song of Defeat (1910)
Context: It is all as of old, the empty clangour,
The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page,
The huckster who, mocking holy anger,
Painfully paints his face with rage.
…
We that fight till the world is free,
We have no comfort in victory;
We have read each other as Cain his brother,
We know each other, these slaves and we.
“As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.”
Man, Society, and Freedom (1871)
Context: The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
“We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.”
Source: Love
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.”
Attributed by Murrow to an unnamed farmer in "Harvest of Shame", CBS Reports (24 November 1960)
Misattributed
“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear”
fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
"Extreme Behavior in Aspen" (3 February 2003)
2000s
“We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 37.
“We have to do it and we will do it. We represent Canadians but Canadians will be there for us too”
Turmel vows to stay on until NDP chooses leader http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/23/pol-ndp-turmel.html August 23, 2011.