Depositary Quotes & Sayings

Rough rides are smoother when you've got a passenger who understands the road. — R.K. Ryals

The depositary of power is always unpopular. — Benjamin Disraeli

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure. — Luis Von Ahn

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS. — Alexander Hamilton

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man. — William Godwin

I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me. — Saint Basil

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights. — Thomas Jefferson

It wasn't only our country they occupied," Irene explained to Amir Shah. "They occupied our minds. — Sorayya Khan

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in the Dominican Republic, that are the result of centuries of international commerce, colonization, conquest, and the slave trade. The facelessness means that there is no 'typical' Dominican woman. — Sandra Rodriguez Barron

Do we want a master, or shall we have a genie whose command is our wish? This is the tension of desire - and the test of revelation. — Jen Pollock Michel

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom. — Thomas Jefferson