Shackled Quotes
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Whoever in his public services is handcuffed and shackled by the vice of consistency will be a man not free to act as various questions come before him from time to time; he will be a statesman locked in a prison house, keys to which are in the keeping of days and events that are dead. Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen.'
henry fountain ashurst— Johnson, James W. (2002). Arizona Politicians: The Noble and the Notorious, illustrations by David `Fitz' Fitzsimmons, University of Arizona Press. p 112.
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.
tony benn— Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)
The Big-Media collective is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they'll recognize it, much less report it.
ilana mercer— "President Pinicchio’s Growing Proboscis" WorldNetDaily.com, October 31, 2013.
He who has been a ruler over ten people will be brought shackled on the Day of Resurrection, until the justice (by which he ruled) loosens his chains or tyranny brings him to destruction.
— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1037
The liberty of the press has always been, and has justly been, a favourite topic with Englishmen. They have looked at it with jealousy whenever it has been invaded; and though a licenser was put over the press, and was suffered to exist for some years after the coming of William, and after the revolution, yet the reluctant spirit of English liberty called for a repeal of that law; and from that time to this it has not been shackled and limited more than it ought to be.
— Lord Kenyon, Case of John Lambert and others (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1016.
The Big-Media collective is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they'll recognize it, much less report it.
— "President Pinicchio’s Growing Proboscis" WorldNetDaily.com, October 31, 2013.
He who has been a ruler over ten people will be brought shackled on the Day of Resurrection, until the justice (by which he ruled) loosens his chains or tyranny brings him to destruction.
— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1037
Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. ? Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?
— 1965 'Advice toYoung Ladies', in Collected Poems1930-1970 (1972).
