#discretion

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

#depository #discretion #enlightened #enough #exercise

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#also #anything #being #budget #cutting

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#hypocrisy #polite #word

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. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#detail #discretion #judgment #matter #mere

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. ↗

— Junius

#discretion #necessarily #notable #talents

Discretion is not the better part of biography. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#biography #discretion #part

All good art is an indiscretion. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#good #good art #indiscretion

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. ↗

— John Bolton

#american #because #chain #command #could