Quotes: Restraint

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

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

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

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.

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.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

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.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.