“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”
Michel de Montaigne
“The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In 2006, our number one task is to persist in the Strike Hard campaign, strictly punish crimes that subvert state power and try to split the country.”
Xiao Yang
“No one is more than a sum total of his life experiences. Mr. Wilson is the son of a strict disciplinarian who ruled his home with an iron fist as well.”
Chris Harper
“This is strictly look and leave”
Ray Nagin
“His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!”
Charles Dickens
