Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 157 Trust quotesTrust QuotesTrust Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes 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 sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.~ James Madison All men having power ought to be mistrusted.~ James Madison To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered... (more)~ Jonathan Mayhew The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody's out to get you. Nobody gives a shit whether you live or die. There, you feel better now?~ Dennis Miller Trust is a two way street. If your government does not trust you, how can you trust your government?~ Bruce Montague The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.~ Maureen Murphy Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else.~ P. J. O'Rourke A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.~ Thomas Paine A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.~ Thomas Paine It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.~ Thomas Paine The most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.~ Thomas Paine Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.~ John Arthur Passmore Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?~ Isabel Paterson All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.~ Pat Paulsen Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.~ Pericles The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.~ Plato It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools -- so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime -- 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.~ Ronald Reagan Our coins bear the words 'In God We Trust'. We take the oath of office asking His help in keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a nation under God when we pledge allegiance to the flag. But we can't mention His name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are nondenominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.~ Ronald Reagan On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print