A freeman contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. [ George Washington ]

We may hold it slavish to dress according to the judgment of fools and the caprice of coxcombs; but are we not ourselves both when we are singular in our attire? [ Chatfield ]

The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. [ J. B. Owen ]