Common Quote by Charles Sumner Download Open image “The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.” — Charles Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Lasts Office Phrases Property Public office Public trust Trust
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public… — Dorman Bridgeman Eaton Copy Share Image
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the things it's so important for any city government is to have the trust of the public. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
“I’ve never understood who owns public property—whether it’s the taxpayers, the government, or the person who uses it.” — S.W. Southwick Copy Share Image
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights… — Charles Sumner Copy Share
Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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