"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
― Thomas Jefferson
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Trust
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."
- "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
- "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
More In Trust
- "We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is."― Howard Dean
- "If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us."― Francis Maude
- "At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways."― Laurie Anderson