#fetter

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#american #american public #criminals #dangerous #effectively

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

#chains #discovered #fetter #mind #tyrants

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#destroy #endanger #europe #existence #fetter

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left