#yoke

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism. ↗

— John Doolittle

#cold war #communism #conviction #courage #freedom

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#broke #first #his #into #loves

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#be grateful #becomes #grateful #idea #man

How good is God! How sweet his yoke! ↗

— Jean Racine

#good #his #how #sweet #yoke

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#bands #desirous #foreign #guerrilla #indestructible

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#anger #cruel #dart #escape #fantastic

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results! (from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) ↗

— Deborah L. McCarragher

#family-life #inspirational #marriage #non-fiction #relationships

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#entirely #held #his #husband #influence

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed