Quotes About Restraint

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

I think it's a bit excessive.

Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg

Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg.

Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

Power must never be trusted without a check.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

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

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

There was so much life wrapped up in that pony's hide that it was mighty hard for him to settle down and behave...he sometimes had to bust out and do things that wasn't at all proper...

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Never miss a good chance to shut up." ? Will Rogers