Confidence Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

— H. L. Mencken

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

— John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

— Anonymous

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice…

— Preston Manning

It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a…

— James Madison

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends…

— Lysander Spooner

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity…

— Thomas Paine

Confidence is the public face of competence,

— Ron Suskind

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

— Thomas Jefferson

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

— Walter Lippmann