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“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”

Wells May Water Freedom Steps Land Proud Mountain England Firm Magnificent Scotland Couches Switzerland Dams Fetters Nile

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”

Desire Freedom Liberty Poverty Possession Strongest Despotism Secured Fetters

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.”

Freedom Golden Bees Being Free Fetters

Book:Poetical Works ...: Miscellaneous poems

Source: Poetical Works ...: Miscellaneous poems

“Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?”

Lasts Spirit Freedom Race Mankind Strength Limits Giants Length Free Spirit Curb Fetters Swiftness

Author:William C. Bryant

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”

Inspirational States Moments Fall Freedom Slavery Slave Resolve Be A Slave Fetters Mental Slavery Slavery Freedom

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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

Seems Freedom Deep Thought Fetters

Author:Robert Browning

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

Loses Freedom Liberty Greater Your Freedom Fetters

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”

Mind Freedom Democracy Chains Tyrants Fetters

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think