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• When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Fall, Cutting

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

  John Ford

  Single Life, Maintenance, May

  John Ford, Alexander Dyce, William Gifford (1965). “Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble”

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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Foals, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

  James Madison

  Government, Europe, People

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• The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Supernatural Forces, Humanity, Wish

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
  [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

  Ovid

  Education, Bulls, Taurus

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• You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Eye, Want

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• In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Communication, Heart, Successful

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”

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• His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain,
  Unless He does in our affections reign.
  How fond it were to wish for such a King,
  And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
  Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
  His service freedom, and His judgments right.

  Edmund Waller

  Kings, Light, Wish

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.252

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• I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

  John Green

  Morning, Love Is, Loving Someone

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• Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Discipline, Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

  Mary McCarthy

  Guilt, Lambs, Deliverance

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Religious, Effort, Political

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Men, Race, People

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Calling

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• Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Discovery, Political

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• Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

  Myrtle Reed

  Thinking, Way, Sometimes

  Myrtle Reed (1903). “The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn”

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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Secret, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• [Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

  James Madison

  Marriage, Advice, Easy

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.568

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• There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Thinking, Self

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

  Plato

  Soul, Madness, Divine

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1540, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  Edmund Waller

  Art, Language, Spokes

  'Upon the Death of the Lord Protector' l. 21

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• One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

  Carl Jung

  Oneself

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• We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Philosophy, Mistake

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