Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
William H. SewardSelf-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness
The Cannibal Within. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Elective AffinitiesWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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