A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Thomas Jefferson

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Bind Chains Constitution Down Mischief Them

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Margaret Mitchell

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

William Wells Brown

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Bruce R. McConkie

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

Steven Biko

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Michael Dolan

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

Swami Vivekananda

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

Maria W. Stewart

There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

Bruce Coville

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Nelson Mandela

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Antonio Porchia

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Gary Renard

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.