#tru

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. ↗

— Henry Clay

#benefit #both #created #officers #people

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#crooked #even #stick #straight #turns

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery. ↗

— Les Claypool

#embracing #form #going #i #i think

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#made #often #scoundrels #time #traitor

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. ↗

— John Clayton

#chosen #christians #ethnic #instruction #nationalistic

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#did #experiences #her #i #i am

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#am #american #american dream #citizen #dream

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. ↗

— John Cleese

#any #destroys #dividing #just #kind