Quotes About Trust

All scheming princes must keep a few secrets.

We spend so much time lying to one another that I decided it would be amusing to say what I really felt. Just to see whether anyone noticed.

And, in any case, the idea of independence was a fantasy. Everyone depended on someone.

Holding on to a relationship is like holding sand in your hand! The more tightly you try to grip it, the more quickly it vanishes and more freely you hold it, the longer it stays! So, Relationship = How you hold it?

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.

it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest.

Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors.

Early disappointments with people left Washington with a residual cynicism that was to jibe well with Hamilton's views.

If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.

The first "Publius" letter pointed out that greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.

greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.

So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

Every president "ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office.

The world of politics was filled with duplicitous people and Grant was poorly equipped to spot them, remaining an easy victim for crooked men. "They studied Grant, some of them, as the shoemaker measures the foot of his customer," wrote George Hoar.

Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account balance because he had lost his bank book—this from the man who had created the bank.

I trust . . . that the good sense of our countrymen will guard the public weal against this and every other innovation and that, altho[ugh] we may be a little wrong now and then, we shall return to the right path with more avidity." It was an accurate forecast of American history, both its tragic lapses and its miraculous redemptions.

Has anyone given you the law of these offices? No? It is this: nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it.… As soon as you can, get some one whom you can rely on, train him in the work, sit down, cock up your heels, and think out some way for the Standard Oil to make some money.

Profiting from the Rockefeller tie, the Equitable Trust became within a decade America's eighth-largest bank.

He believed in Standard Oil and gladly purchased all available stock from other directors.

To live with his own conscience, he told his father, he had to resign from the trust and devote his life to philanthropy.

Something about this deep domesticity and respectability pleased Washington, who was never cut out for a gallivanting, footloose life. Martha gave him a secure, happy base for the myriad activities of a busy career. She was his dear companion, trusted adviser, and confidante long after lust faded, and they delighted in each other's company.

That his father honored his wish to leave Standard Oil only deepened the bond between them.

So why did Senior procrastinate in giving him his money?

Rockefeller did not show any anxiety about the absence of security