"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."

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Source : Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836”, p.42, University Press of Kentucky

Henry Clay

#Trust Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”
“Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.”

Source : Patrick Skene Catling (2013). “The Chocolate Touch”, p.20, Harper Collins
“... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.”
“I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.”
“It's so much easier to do good than to be good.”
“I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.”
“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”
“In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.”

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