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“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”

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Ronald Reagan quotes (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004)

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“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

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Brigham Young quotes (American religious leader, 2nd President of the Mormon church, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West. 1801-1877)

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“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.”

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“Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in”

Ronald Reagan quotes (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004)

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“With 'multimedia' the profound ethical and aesthetic challenge comes from the burden of responsibility that lies with the individual once the constraints on communications are so radically eased if not eliminated.”

Kenneth Dyson quotes

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“Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.”

Thomas Sowell quotes (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)

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“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.”

Igor Stravinsky quotes (Russian-born modern composer, 1882-1971)

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“Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.”

Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”

Walt Whitman quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892)

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“All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.”

William Cowper quotes (English Poet One of the most widely read English poets of his day, 1731-1800)

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“Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.”

Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

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“The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”

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“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.”

Alexis de Tocqueville quotes (French Historian and Political scientist. 1805-1859)

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“The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.”

Thomas Mann quotes (German Novelist and Essayist , 1875-1955)

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“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.”

Alexander Hamilton quotes (American political Thinker, Statesman, Lawyer, Soldier and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95), 1757-1804)

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“Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'ï¿½an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraintsï¿½severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedomï¿½often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.”

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William E. Simon quotes

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