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Trust Quotes by James Madison
- [N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,…
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
- It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several…
- A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
- There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with…
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
- The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to…
More Trust Quotes
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel. — Bashar al-Assad
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. — Roy Acuff
- How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams
- I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin