Top Restraint Quotes
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Lytton Strachey
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Henry Miller 
George Mason 
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Mae West 
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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Mary Wortley Montagu 
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller
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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
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Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.
Phyllis Schlafly
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There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
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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
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
Algernon Sydney
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Popular Restraint Authors
Mohandas GandhiJohn RuskinMichel de MontaigneJohn F. KennedyEdmund BurkeHenry MillerMae WestWoodrow WilsonHenry B. AdamsMarquis de SadePhyllis SchlaflyAlexis de TocquevilleDaniel WebsterBill MaherSimone de Beauvoir
Lee H. HamiltonArthur Keith MaimonidesZach WampLascelles AbercrombieMarianne MooreHenry L. StimsonLytton StracheyBarbara DemingGeorge MasonMary Wortley MontaguAlgernon SydneyBob FilnerSextus PropertiusRuss Feingold
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