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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.


Euripides


#acting #fortune #free #law #other

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#democracy #difference #equality #liberty #nothing

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.


Lewis Thomas


#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.


Benjamin Tucker


#answer #any #association #basis #compulsory

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.


Henry Adams


#absolute #free #himself #ideally #individual

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.


J. Irwin Miller


#characterizes #comfortable #course #cynical #decline

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.


Ron Paul


#conservatism #constitution #describing #enemy #government

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.


Bill Shuster


#allowed #being #brought #businesses #cutting

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.


Algernon Sidney


#effect #general #good #intended #liberty

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.


Edward E. Barnard


#fetter #flights #our #restrain #well






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