#strain

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child? ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. ↗

— David Frum

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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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