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Trust Quotes


"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."


"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."


"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."


"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."


"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."


"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."


"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that."


"Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."


"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me."


"One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos."


"If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country."


"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man."



"Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all."


"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."


"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."


"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."


"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."


"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."


"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."


"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."


"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."


"Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief."


"Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied."


"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."


"Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for."


"I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more."


"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."


"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."


"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
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