Discretion Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discretion Divorce Evil Government Greater Politics Separation
“Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil]. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the absence of… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron] — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image