"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."

Trust, Government, People, Job

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"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."

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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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"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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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Trust, Secrecy, Discretion, Awareness

"They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Surrender everything to God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I'd heard you were dead."I heard you wear a red lace corset, I said matter-of-factly. "But I don't believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"What harm does lying cause? One loses people's trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

Economy

"While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos."

Society

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

Government

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."

Wealth

"I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy."

Equality

"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."

Fear

"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

Unity

"I'm a Christian by choice."

Faith

"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Mistake

"What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency."

Action