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- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- I don't trust him. We're friends.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
- I don't really trust a sane person.
- Pro football lineman Lyle Alzado
- Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
- Sterne
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
- R. D. Hitchcock
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