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We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.


Joseph de Maistre


#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.


James K. Polk


#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.


Arthur Keith


#bewildering #building #cultural #different #difficulties

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.


John F. Kennedy


#country #forward #future #great #i

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.


Phyllis Schlafly


#congress #judiciary #need #our #restraint

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.


Adam Smith


#customers #discipline #effectual #employment #exercised

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.


Madame de Stael


#him #increased #makes #man #moral

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.


Henry L. Stimson


#been #between #feeling #getting #government

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.


Nelson A. Miles


#administration #check #civilization #control #could

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.


Richard Savage


#anger #deepest #hot #like #man






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