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"You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you."

"Look, he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed, I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that?"

"It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person."

"All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yessir.But there aint but one reason.Yessir.You know what it is?No sir.It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be."

"Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on."

"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."

"Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter."
Explore more quotes by James Madison

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
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