Private Judgement

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or judgement:

    [In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other—that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    A man’s conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)