Quote by Thomas Jefferson
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a pub

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. – Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart thats the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. – William Odom

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To get a childs trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. Theyre so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time. – Maurice Sendak

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. – Kate Chopin

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But that citizens perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. – Seamus Heaney

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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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