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Top Restraint Quotes

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

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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J. Irwin Miller

Arthur Keith

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Simone de Beauvoir

Michel de Montaigne

John Ruskin

Bill Maher

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All Restraint Quotes

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

John Ruskin

44% of people like this quote

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon H. Blackwood

43% of people like this quote

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.

Russ Feingold

36% of people like this quote

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

34% of people like this quote

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

Mohandas Gandhi

15% of people like this quote