The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison

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

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
Jim Bakker

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Rosa Luxemburg

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan Macy

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
Matthew Simpson

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.
Ann Wilson

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
Lucy Liu

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
Mary Astell

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx