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  • One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

  • To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.274, Cambridge University Press
  • Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

  • Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

  • It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

    Mean   Ideas   Democracy  
  • If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.

    Religious   Believe   Men  
  • The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

  • Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 15, 2011
  • When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

  • No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

    B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.114, Hackett Publishing
  • When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

    Christian   Fall   People  
  • What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

    Law   Doe   Restraining  
  • Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  • Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

    Book   Order   Columns  
    "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.” “He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

  • Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

    William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
  • Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

    Wisdom   Men   Law  
    David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.180
  • The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

    Water   Listening   May  
  • Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

    People   Grace   Worst  
  • Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

    William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”
  • The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

    Virginia Bill of Rights article 12 (1776)
  • How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

    House   Liberty   Purpose  
    Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.95
  • Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.

    Girl   Mother   Daughter  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”
  • By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

  • Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

    "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.
  • You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

  • Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

    Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin
  • There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

    Men   Vanity   Littles  
    George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.324
  • Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

    Mean   Men   People  
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