America Quote by Orson F. Whitney

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers…

— David Walker

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of…

— Edward Gibbon

Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even…

— Gautama Buddha

There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever…

— Anna Brackett

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

— Khalil Gibran

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness,…

— Charles Spurgeon

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from…

— Albert Einstein

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,…

— Gautama Buddha

I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented…

— Dan Mazer

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

— Voltaire

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