Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
Katharine Lee Bates

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Paul Whiteman

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is everywhere still in chains.
Herbert Read

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
Adelbert von Chamisso

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Countess of Blessington

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
Lennart Meri

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman