Discretion Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing…

— Abraham Lincoln

Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or…

— John Locke

How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing…

— John C. Calhoun

...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a…

— Ludwig von Mises

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those…

— Richard Henry Lee

Who are we to give other human beings so much power over our own peace of mind? Take back from others the power to…

— Yahiya Emerick

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to…

— George Washington

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either…

— William Godwin

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections…

— Ludwig von Mises

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that…

— James Madison