Word: restraint
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...central trouble seems simply that too many parents have forgotten that freedom gains meaning from restraint. In this they are creatures of their times. For thousands of years, various, and very different, definitions of freedom -- Aristotelian, Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past 20 years, the idea of freedom has evolved like a mutated animal, involving the absence not only of significant choice but of moral or rational restraints. Without a context of limitations, freedom has become dangerous and meaningless. If freedom has no restraints and embraces everything, then it risks becoming tyranny, since...
Although Congress is stretching its fiscal imagination, juggling budget figures to stay below the $144 billion debt limit set for next year by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act, there was little talk of restraint on the subject of curbing drug abuse. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week said he would favor new taxes to pay for the plan. "I'm afraid this bill % is the legislative equivalent of crack," said Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, one of the handful of Congressmen who voted against the package. "It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage...
Were Harvard to abandon its restraint and raise its voice on behalf of a compelling cause, it would have toppled an ivory tower only to replace it with a no less ignominious Tower of Babel...
...further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public plea for restraint. For its part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force, is planning to reroute the ceremonies from possible flash points. But merely changing the line of march could provoke more protests from hard-line Protestants. At any time this summer, the men of Orange could...
...about 19 years, should not unreasonably burden its successors. He believed sufficient taxes should be levied to clear the books in that 19-year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle might also be an effective restraint on the "dog of war," reasoned Jefferson, who had seen the European potentates suffocate their subjects with debt from wars of pride and whim...