Quotes About Trust

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.