Top Discretion Quotes
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France
Francis Bacon 
Thomas Jefferson 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
John Adams 
Barbara Tuchman 
Walter Scott 
Evelyn Waugh 
Jean de La Fontaine 
Marie de France 
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee 
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Henry Steele Commager
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams
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Marcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonFrancis BaconJohn RuskinDenis DiderotJean de La FontaineMarquis de SadeChristian Nestell BoveeWilliam GodwinJohn AdamsSandra Day O'ConnorWalter ScottEvelyn WaughChristine Keeler
Georg SimmelLytton StracheyBarbara TuchmanIsaac BarrowMarie de France JuniusJohn SeldenPhilip StanhopeHarry A. BlackmunHannah MoreJohn Griffin CarlisleHenry Steele CommagerPope Gregory VII
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