#restraint

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.


Edmund Burke


#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.


Russ Feingold


#anyone #attorney #attorney general #care #floor

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

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

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.


Arthur Laffer


#bank #bonds #bring #down #fed

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.


Osbert Lancaster


#boredom #enthusiasm #much #occasioned #pointless

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

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.


Maimonides


#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

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 are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times!


Grover Norquist


#democrats #dollar #every #first #fooled