I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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