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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

George Washington

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

Ayn Rand

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

John Erskine

This is too much interference in business affairs. I'm fairly liberal-minded and I think the city should protect neighborhoods, but it shouldn't restrain a legitimate business.

Jean Godden

It is my understanding that the settlement was reached in the case and the restraining ordered was denied.

Pahl Shipley

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

These projects are aimed at avoiding possible oil supply interruptions and restraining global crude oil prices.

Ma Kai

He was a disgruntled boyfriend. She had a temporary restraining order against him.

Tom Bennett

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

William Sloan Coffin

The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Derrik Sovak

France sees China as an important part of that. China and France have declared a strategic partnership and both sides think about how to restrain US power and France would like to play the China card.

Adam Segal

The court now has the opportunity to do the right thing and really enforce what their criminal penalties are for violating a restraining order.

Mary Gianakis

The continued improvement in services-sector activity is particularly impressive given the head winds restraining the consumer-related sectors.

Michael Blythe

Most of these situations are handled at patrol level and include phone harassment or letters and notes that are mostly just annoying in nature, ... But when it elevates to following in public or violating a restraining order it can become a felony.

Mark Childress

Why should drunks who cannot restrain themselves in public cause problems for everyone else?

Charles Carter

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Saint Augustine

Disclosure is necessary but insufficient to restrain pay.

Richard Ferlauto

All a temporary restraining order gets is a 10-day order so all the parties involved can make their arguments, ... It can be extended to 20 days, and within that period the government can try to get a preliminary injunction.

Charles Rule

The court determined that there was overwhelming evidence that a restraining order was appropriate. It is our hope that Mr. Stansfield will abide by the court order.

John Gatti

You have to gauge the risk to the inmate versus the risk to the inmate and officers when they go in to restrain him. This appears to be appropriate.

Scott Dover

That's a bit of an understatement. The staff just gave up and couldn't restrain him forever. 'They let him go in frustration' would be a better way of saying it.

Gerald Butler

I loved my father so much and couldn't handle what she was doing to him. I used to yell at him. We encouraged him to get restraining orders. He got two, then she'd cry and he'd feel sorry for her.

Laura Melisi

I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

James Browning

This restraining order is telling us not to do things we don't do anyway, A memo recently distributed to parents prohibited students from including religious symbols on holiday gifts and cards, including ones related to St. Valentine's Day.

Kris Taylor

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

We've restructured the industry. We think producers are wisely restraining expansion because they know well the adverse impact a rapid expansion could have on both prices and profits.

Daniel Bluntzer

Despite what Mr. Mattingly might say, the temporary restraining order did raise serious constitutional issues about government attempting to muzzle the press. It was a mistake from the beginning that has now been resolved.

George Cox

There is a high probability that some legal action will be pursued. Perhaps a temporary restraining order to stop the implementation and then broader legal action after that.

Brad Woodhouse

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Homer

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James Polk

In fact, on May 12, 2005, the department had filed a brief arguing that the $130 billion smoking-cessation program was indeed forward-looking and would prevent and restrain future wrongful conduct by the tobacco industry.

Michael Fiore

The sky's the limit now. A jury will tell us how much they are going to have to pay for damages. There is also still a lease outstanding, which is more damages. The restraining order was the stupidest thing they could have done.

Jonathan Lovett

In order to keep the deficit on this declining path, we must continue to do two things: First, keep the economy growing; and second, restrain spending.

Josh Bolten

[The student advocates] do an initial interview with the client and find out whether the restraining order is the client's best option. Sometimes a restraining order could be more dangerous than not getting one, so we teach students how to assess how dangerous a perpetrator is.

Katherine Garren

This restraining order is telling us not to do things we don't do anyway.

Kris Taylor

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Morris Cohen

He was five feet away, eating with his wife and daughter, his family intact. I had to restrain myself. I'd do anything to be able sit down and have a meal with my family. Instead, all I have left is a mother who cries every single day, a woman who lives in a state of perpetual grief. That's what these bastards did.

Mike Guido

Mexico is trying to restrain the growth of spending and bring the public debt ratio down, and how they have tried to strike that balance has not compromised the objective of bringing the debt ratio down.

Anoop Singh