#entrust

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#country #entrusted #greatest #love #mankind

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#entrusted #even #experience #forms #government

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#before #care #church #entrusted #female

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#asia #automatically #bands #carl #credit

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#achieve #control #deliberate #deplorable #effects

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#entrusted #light #responsible #talent #while

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#entrusted #herself #secrets

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#continues #discipline #each #elsewhere #entrusted