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«God has entrusted me with myself.»
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, forms, forms of government, good form, in operation, in time, operations, perverted, perverting, perverts, slow, tyrannies, tyranny
«A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole»
«Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.»
«Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| Keywords:
entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, gossips, inquisitive, open to
«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.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
| About:
Power,
Trust
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, animated, animates, entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, if not, prince
«A man who encounters the following three is unfortunate; the death of his wife in his old age, the entrusting of money into the hands of relatives, and depending upon others for food.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
depending, encounters, entrusting, entrusts, relatives, unfortunates
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Liberty,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
American people, entrust, entrusted, entrusts, experiment, justly, model, preservation, Republican, staked
«The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Bureaucracies, circle, deceived, detail, entrust, entrusting, entrusts, general knowledge, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, levels, low-level, lower, mutually, The General
«War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
War
| Keywords:
entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, matter to, military, serious, The Military
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