We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence our servant may prove to be our executioner.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength if you want to raise their character.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Do not trust all men but trust men of worth the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.
In the early centuries of Islam the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Prudence is but experience which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
But after this natural burst of indignation no man of sense courage or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Wisdom prudence forethought these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right and leaves the consequences to God.
In matters of conscience first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence last thoughts are best.
Genius always gives its best at first prudence at last.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.