Public Faith Quotes

The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

A safe-conduct or passport contains a pledge of the public faith, that it shall be duly respected, and the observance of this duty is essential to the character of the government which grants it.

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty; that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party; but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority....

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

People have to believe that government can work, and you have to show them that government can work.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

It always matters whether or not you can trust your government.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Delivering up the Negroes to their former masters would be delivering them up—some to execution and others to punishments which would in my own opinion be a dishonorable violation of the public faith

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.

Government is not guaranteed to work right.

It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.

What are the maxims of democracy?... A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

We provide new programmes, concepts, shows, regardless of what's on other channels. After all, we command viewer loyalty and we are trustees of public faith.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

In all trying positions in which I shall be placed, and doubtless I shall be placed in many such, my reliance will be upon...the people of the United States;

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.