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Quotations on Public Trust

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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797)

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 tha ...

by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
(December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881)

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.

by Thomas Babington Macaulay
(October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859)

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797)

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

by Thomas Jefferson
(April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826)

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.



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