Restraints Quotes

82 quotes by 71 authors

Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and… — Billy Graham
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping… — Elizabeth Holtzman
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure… — John Ashcroft
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,… — L. Ron Hubbard
I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh… — Edgar Mitchell
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from… — James Bovard
Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a reminder of their… — James Victore
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other… — Lysander Spooner
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government. — Benjamin Rush
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. — John Stuart Mill
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as… — Ludwig von Mises
Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love… — Cameron Diaz
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. — Laurence Sterne
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints. — Helen Lynd

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