Strained Quotes

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

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.