Restrictive Measures Quotes

Martial Law should be less stringent in places and countries fully occupied and fairly conquered. Much greater severity may be exercised in places or regions where actual hostilities exist, or are expected and must be prepared for. Its most complete sway is allowed—even in the commander's own country—when face to face with the enemy, because of the absolute necessities of the case, and of the paramount duty to defend the country against invasion. To save the country is paramount to all other considerations

To Cure the ill Use of Liberty, with a Deprivation of Liberty, is like cutting off the Leg to cure the Gout in the Toe

The first instinct of the modern man is to get a law passed to forbid or prevent what, in his wisdom, he disapproves.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

I can forgive the Israelis for occupying our town, but I can never forgive them for imposing a curfew and forcing me to live in the same house as my mother-in-law for 43 days. .

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

How do you stop somebody from growing?

I just can't understand why we don't go forward and put more sanctions.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.