Trusteeship Quotes

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all amenable to them.

The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the Attendance of the Trustees of the People upon the Interest and Affairs of the People

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

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.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not to those who receive the trust.

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferred and committed to them in trust from the People.

All political power is a trust.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

[For those peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization .... the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations ...

Government is a trust from God, and verily government will be at the day of resurrection a cause of inquiry, unless he who hath taken it be worthy of it and have acted justly and done good.

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees.

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

You re being handed a national treasure. Your main responsibility is that whenever you may leave it, it still remains a national treasure.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Members of Congress are trustees of the people.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.