Quotes related to Galatians 5:1
Only the man who says no is free
— Herman Melville
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
— Henry David Thoreau
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
— Thomas Jefferson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
— Frederick Douglass
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
— Aristotle
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
— Abraham Lincoln
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Francis de Sales