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.

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

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

For too long in this society we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

We shall listen not lecture learn not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy not on military might.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science along with behaviour control genetic engineering transplanted heads computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.