WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:35:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg bondage – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lincoln, Abraham -- Speech (1858-09-11), Edwardsville, Illinois https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/78671/ https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/78671/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:23:59 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78671 Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.


Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-09-11), Edwardsville, Illinois
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As reported in the Alton Weekly Courier (1858-09-16). ]]> https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/78671/feed/ 0 78671 Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1522 (1732) https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/12124/ https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/12124/#respond Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:33:28 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=12124 Fetters of Gold are still Fetters; and silken Cords pinch.


Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1522 (1732)
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