Fetters Quotes

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

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

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.