Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains--chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment--in a word, Circumstance--and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
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I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
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We chase misprinted lies We face the path of time And yet I fight And yet I fight This battle all alone No one to cry to No place to call home
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2 Peter 2:4:
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment
(NIV)
For God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom.
(AMP)
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
(KJV)
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Philippians 1:13:
As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
(NIV)
So much is this a fact that throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest [here] my imprisonment has become generally known to be in Christ [that I am a prisoner in His service and for Him].
(AMP)
So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
(KJV)
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It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.
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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who ...
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
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