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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, read more
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the
same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a
public trust.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a
trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a
trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become
common property.
The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become
common property.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are
trustees; and both the trust and the trustees read more
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.
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities
of which must be used as absolutely as the read more
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.
If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the
moneys as trust funds, if you read more
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.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of
any till they are first read more
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.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as
public property.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as
public property.
