Famous quotes containing the words power and/or constraint:
“True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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 (1805–1859)