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"Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny."

Henry James Sumner Maine on Trust

More quotes about Trust

• "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

  William Shakespeare on Trust

• "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."

  Bo Bennett on Trust

• "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

  Stephen King on Trust

• "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."

  Isaac Watts on Trust

• "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

  Golda Meir on Trust

More quotes by Henry James Sumner Maine

• "Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed."

• "It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."

• "It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world."