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Trusted Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with…
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
- The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- 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…
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
- Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their…
More Trusted Quotes
- I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
- Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers
- And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe… — Ronald Reagan
- He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his. — Suzanne Collins
- If u succeed in cheating someone, don't think that the person is fool, do realize that the person trusted u more than… — Melchor Lim
- I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut. — Bryan Adams
- I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman… — Erma Bombeck
- And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and… — Aberjhani