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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.


Lewis H. Lapham


#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.


Rob Portman


#american #create #crisis #economy #entrepreneurial

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.


Theodore Roosevelt


#done #enough #executive #good #good people

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.


Bertrand Russell


#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.


Marquis de Sade


#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)


George Washington


#humility #patriotism #restraint #freedom

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!


Louis-Ferdinand Celine


#deserve #die #front #going #hell

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.


Albert Camus


#dies #freedom #imposes #itself #lives

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.


Fred Upton


#entitlement #even #focused #future #heavily

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.


Zach Wamp


#policies #pro-growth #pro-growth policies #restraint #spending






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