Active Head Restraint

Famous quotes containing the words active, head and/or restraint:

“The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“Hugo, like a priest, always has his head bowed—bowed so low that he can see nothing except his own navel.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“Liberty is the air that we Americans breathe. Our Government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free. That civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)