"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."

Trust, People, Enemies, Public

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"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."

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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

Karen Marie Moning, American Author

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."

James Cash Penney, American Businessman

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"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."

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"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."

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"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

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"I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio."

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"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen."

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"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

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"Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well."

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"Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for."

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"I fought fire with oil."

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