Word: self-restraint
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Dashing off a letter in high dudgeon can be good for the nerves and soul. Not sending it can be even better. Self-restraint ennobles outrage. The aggrieved correspondent can have all the fun of venting strong feelings, coupled with a gratifying sense of condescension toward the addressee. There, but for the grace of the writer, goes one angry and insulted...
That judicial self-restraint has certainly not marked the Supreme Court during most of the past three decades; justices like William O. Dougles, the "Great Dissenter," carved out activist roles and frequently invalidated legislation that they felt contradicted basic American values. To such judges, Ely's answer is simple: "It must be very frustrating for people who think they understand things better than elected officials. But that's what they ought to learn to be--frustrated...
...interestingly, Cox has an answer for those who would call Ely's advocacy of judicial self-restraint a cover for conservatism. The former Watergate special prosecutor notes that Ely's idol is Earl Warren--to whom Democracy and Distrust is dedicated and that in lionizing the Warren Court. Ely is "defending the most activist Court we ever...
Linkage means making cooperation with Moscow in one area contingent on Soviet self-restraint in others. That proposition has a profound appeal for any American who ponders the dilemma of having to share the planet with a nation like the U.S.S.R. Soviet internal and foreign policies are anathema to American national interests and to universal humanitarian values. Yet the dangerous accumulation of thermonuclear weaponry by both superpowers makes it imperative that they try to get along. Therefore, even the most righteously anti-Soviet Secretaries of State almost always pick up where their predecessors left off, sitting down with the durable...
...likely to see a lot of self-restraint," he added, until the Soviets "recognize the risks" of continuing to sacrifice their country's future well-being...