"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
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"Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust."
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"All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society."
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"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them."
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"I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
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"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool."
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"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."
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"I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind."
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"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
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"Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests."
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"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
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"There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb."
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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
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"Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him."
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"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
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"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
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"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams."
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"It's better to be trusted than to be liked."
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