Discretion Quote by Conrad Black

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt…

— James Madison

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....

— James Madison

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station…

— Jonathan Swift

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

— Blaise Pascal

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

— Chris Christie

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of…

— James Madison

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

— Francis Bacon

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is…

— John F. Kennedy

If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by…

— George Washington

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to…

— Abigail Adams