Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Abraham Lincoln

• Chains
• Bondage
• Rises
• Trample
• Independance

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• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

  

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• Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

  

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• Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.

  

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• Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

  

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  

  Benjamin Todd Jealous
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• It's weird, because everywhere I go, people yell, 'Grasshopper!' or 'Bill!' but down there in Mexico or Colombia or anywhere in South America or most of Europe, people will yell, 'Serpent's Egg!' And I'll go, 'Wow, man, these people are really hip.'

  

  David Carradine
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• I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

  

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• If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• If you don't judge my gold chains, I'll forget the iron chains.

  

  LL Cool J
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• But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

  

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• In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

  

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• There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

  

  Ben Affleck
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• Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. I'm just normal, and that's what I'm going to be. There's no bad girl with whips and chains that's going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
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• All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

  

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
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• Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Graves
  • Bondage
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• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

  

  Liz Tuccillo
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• Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Chains
  • Bondage
  • Rises