In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“At every moment of life the civilised man is hedged about by restrictions of impulse: if he happens to feel cheerful he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image