Public Restraint Quotes

The public must be put in its place...so that each of us can live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Sometimes less is better with government.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I ain't rocking with Trump, but politics I kinda keep to myself.

In a free society, the ‘vision thing’ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary’ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.