Public trust Quotes

“Public administration”

“Public administration theory”

“The office should seek the man, not man the office.”

“Men of honour will do their duty and will abide the consequences.”

“The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.”

“It is a disparagement of the Government, who put an ill man into office.”

“We are not to assume that public officers will do anything unjust or tyrannical.”

“The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of late become common property.”

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.”

“public trust”

“The Crown cannot ever be prejudiced by the misconduct or negligence of any of its officers.”

“Wikipedia: Public trust”

“The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.”

“It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.”

“A servant of the Crown ought not to be placed at a disadvantage in comparison with other subjects.”

“All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.”

“A private Life is to be preferr'd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.”

“There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of a people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.”

“All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”

“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”