Quotes About Restraint

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Government is best which governs least

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

The less government we have the better.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

Government governed least is government governed best.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

Those are governed best who are governed least.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life