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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a
trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
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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.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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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.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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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.
Author: John Caldwell Calhoun
Source: in a speech
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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.
Author: Henry Clay
Source: in a speech at Lexington
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a
public trust.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Inaugural Address
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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.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Letter of Acceptance as Candidate for Governor, see W.O. Stoddard's "Life of Cleveland", ch. IX
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The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust,
and not as a personal perquisite.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Letter of Acceptance as Candidate for Governor, see W.O. Stoddard's "Life of Cleveland", ch. IX
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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.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Vivian Grey (bk. VI, ch. VII)
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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.
Author: Dorman Bridgman Eaton
Source: The "Spoils" System and Civil-Service Reform (ch. III, The Merit System)
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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.
Author: Roswell P. Flower
Source: on the night of Mr. Cleveland's election as governor of New York
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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.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries
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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as
public property.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: Life of Jefferson (p. 356), said to Baron Humboldt, see Rayner's "Life of Jefferson", p. 356
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The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Essay on Horace Walpole
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The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become
common property.
Author: Charles Sumner
Source: in a speech in the United States Senate
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