#restraint

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.


Daniel Webster


#liberty #proportion #restraint #wholesome

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 we don't impose.


John Ashcroft


#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.


Mahatma Gandhi


#becomes #courtesy #irresistible #latter #restraint

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.


Jude Law


#around #because #entering #feel #finally

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.


Sextus Propertius


#been #end #every #faith #gold

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

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.


Gerrit Smith


#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.


Laurence Sterne


#lay #lays #many #religion #restraints