The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke 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
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no"… — Edmund A. Opitz Copy Share Image
And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“For Burke, almost everything that makes life worthwhile is a result of society, its inherited codes, knowledge, and institutions. These goods are… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles. — Pietro Belluschi Copy Share Image
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our foreign ministries will simply need to sort out some purely technical matters. I see no political restraints here. The same applies… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake. "Maybe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
