Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
When you think back to your first kiss your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.
The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement increased physical exercise better diet and restraint from eating.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
One must learn if one is to see the beauty in Japan to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.
When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.