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Trust Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we…
- Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
- I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
- Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or…
- never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
- I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
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