TRUST TRUST
O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
That, in tracing the shade, I shall find out the sun,
Trust to me!
"Eyes to the blind"
Thou art, O God! Earth I no longer see,
Yet trustfully my spirit looks to thee.
You may trust him in the dark.
Roman proverb cited by Cicero.
I well believe
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 114. </poem>
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
185.
My life upon her faith!
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 295.
am sorry I must never trust thee more,
But count the world a stranger for thy sake:
The private wound is deepest.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V. Sc. 4. L.
TRUST (Public)
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| text = <poem>All government is a trust. Every branch of
government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
Jeremy Bentham.
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 that trust to the
one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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.
Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France.
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for
the benefit of an individual or a party.
John C. Calhoun—Speech. July 13, 1835.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the
government are trustees; and both the trust and
the trustees are created for the benefit of the
people.
Henry Clay—Speech at Lexington. May 16,
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| text = Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people
have made and within the limits of a constitution
which they have established.
Grover Cleveland—Letter of Acceptance as
Candidate for Governor. Oct. "7, 1882. See
W. O.Stoddard's Life of Cleveland. Ch.IX.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief
magistrate, under the same high sanction, though
in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland—Inaugural Address.
March 4, 1885. See also speech in accepting the nomination to the Mayoralty of
Buffalo. First Message as Mayor. Reply
to the committee appointed by the Nat.
Democratic Convention to inform him of
his nomination to the Presidency, July 28,
1884.
The appointing power of the Pope is treated
as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
W. W. Crapo.
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.
Benj. Disraeli—Vivian Grey. Bk. VI. Ch.
VII.
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| text = <poem>Public office is a public trust, the authority
and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public
benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.
Dorman B. Eaton—The "Spoils" System
and Cioil-Service Reform. Ch. III. The
Merit System.
If you use your office as you would a private
trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you
faithfully perform your duty, we, the people,
may put you in the Presidential chair.
Hon. R. P. Flower. On the night of Mr.
Cleveland's election as Governor of New
York.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged
in the hands of any till they are first proved and
found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Timothy.
III. '
When a man assumes a public trust, he should
consider himself as public property.
Thos. Jefferson. To Baron Humboldt.
See Rayner's Life of Jefferson. P. 356.
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for the public good. Macaulay—Essay on Horace Walpole. (1833)
