Shackled Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from…
— Robert Fulton
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the…
— William Borah
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We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,…
— David Foreman
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I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.
— Kelly Lynch
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We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound…
— Bob Proctor
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.
— Tony Benn
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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
— Thomas Cole
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness,…
— Gregory David Roberts
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I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with…
— Michael Scheuer
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It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died…
— Roger Mahony
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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
— Robert Toombs
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Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
— Stanislaw Lem
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There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested…
— El-P
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Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all…
— Bill Vaughan
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This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with…
— Victor Hugo
Who Wrote These Shackled Quotes
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