Chains Quote by John Quincy Adams

“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The…

— Ragnar Redbeard

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

“Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.”

— Rousas John Rushdoony

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“But, while a man can be restrained by strict law and order, he cannot be changed by law; he cannot be saved by law.…

— Anonymous

Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his…

— William Blackstone

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with…

— Saint Augustine

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

— William Blake

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

— Bruce Lee