#restrain

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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