Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-157] of 157 Trust quotesTrust QuotesTrust Previous 20 quotes No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.~ Gideon J. Tucker It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.~ Mark Twain I solemnly affirm to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience ... in the interest of the United Nations ... and not to seek or accept instructions ... from any government or other authority external to the organization...~ United Nations' Loyalty Oath If you think talk is cheap, hire a lawyer.~ Unknown Letter to the President of the United States from an American Indian: 'Be careful with your immigration laws. We were careless with ours.'~ Unknown Of course you can trust the United States government. Just ask any Indian.~ Unknown Politicians are like diapers and need to be changed for the same reason.~ Unknown The worst penalties are always imposed on those seeking to help the oppressed.~ Unknown There are three parties in Washington, D.C. . . . Republican, Democratic and Cocktail.~ Unknown We need a law that will allow a voter to sue a candidate for breach of promise.~ Unknown Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ Voltaire Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan Watts I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.~ Daniel Webster Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, not any government secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.~ Daniel Webster Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.~ Elie Wiesel We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he’s friendly and cuddly shouldn’t blind us to the fact that he’s still got teeth and claws.~ Walter E. Williams It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? .... The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.~ Dr. Ravi Zacharias Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print