I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
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Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
quote by Sandra Day O'Connor
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There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
quote by Joseph Addison
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Freedom is Anarchy
Feeling free in full freedom
A quest yet accomplished.
Thinking of the locus and milieu
One, just caring but for himself
The next man a friend without ‘r’
Selfishness as a form of Government
Crudity and rudeness as parastatals
Love, a law against the land
Commitment, crime punishable by death
Patriots, sure candidates for exile.
Free full fledged freedom
How possible for people to practice?
Discerning, doing-destroying at will
For discretion is freedom?
Ultimate freedom allows at least one control
Something controls something
Unlimited freedom is facile.
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
quote by Henry Steele Commager
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
quote by Henry Steele Commager
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
quote by Jose Marti
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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
quote by John Selden
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Discretion is a way of hiding what you cannot help.
There can be no true pleasantry without discretion.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
quote by Hannah More
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
quote by Lytton Strachey
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Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.
Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.