8 Edmund Burke Quotes on Trust

Edmund Burke quotes on trust

8. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

23. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

33. And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

80. It is the love of the [British] people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

113. All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

126. Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

127. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

137. The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.