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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

...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh...


John Geddes


#free-spirited #restraints #art

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

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

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.


David Lloyd George


#liberty #restraints

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

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.


Van Wyck Brooks


#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.


Martha Griffiths


#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.


W. H. Auden


#anything #back #commit #doing #drink






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