Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed…

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we…

— Ronald Reagan

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and…

— Epictetus

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill…

— Loung Ung

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.…

— Demosthenes

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women.

— Nikhil Saluja

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

— Luc de Clapiers

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

— William Shakespeare

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust…

— I. A. Richards

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

— Phil Zimmermann

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

— Anonymous

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang