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restrains

«The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.»
«The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.»
«They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!»
«The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.»
«If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.»
«It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.»
«Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.»
«Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it»
«Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.»
«No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.»

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