Shackled Quotations

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

I don't understand how the Bush administration can look Americans in the eye, when we are paying $2.75 a gallon and we are shackled to Middle East dictators, and say we can't do better when we know we can.

He wasn't feeling up to being in front of a judge. He didn't want to be shackled . . . but it was necessary for him to hear the court's ruling.

I thought. ... I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation.

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.

People today are more fluid, and they don't want to be shackled with one color palette forever.

Adopting a stance that does not fear pain, does not flinch at the barriers of vested interests, and is not shackled by the experience of the past, I want to establish an economic and social system suitable for the 21st century.

Aviation is a key driver of the global economy... yet it remains shackled by an outdated regulatory framework.

It is unacceptable that immigrant workers labor in unsafe conditions for wages insufficient to support their families. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

The U.S. is shackled by the very forces that it liberated.