#restrain

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

— James K. Polk

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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. ↗

— Martin Luther

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There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. ↗

— Rodney King

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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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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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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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