Trustees Quotes

• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

  Henry Clay

  Trust, Government, People

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836”, p.42, University Press of Kentucky

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• A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

  John Ashcroft

  Responsibility, Degrees, Doe

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Youth, Nations

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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

  William Morris

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• Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Welfare, Should

  Mahadev Haribhai Desai, Gandhi (Mahatma) (1928). “With Gandhiji in Ceylon: a journal of the tour with authorised version of all important speeches”

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• The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Wisdom Experience, Community

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• I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Desire, Salvation, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Inspirational, God, Usa

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• The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

  Bill Frist

  Mean, Eye, Ridiculous

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

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• Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

  Susan J. Ellis

  Men, Volunteer, Fireman

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• I am the trustee for the best bloody fans on the face of the earth.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Fans, Earth, Faces

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• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• 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.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Issues, Justice

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• Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Years, President

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Rights, Way

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• You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

  Kerry Washington

  Cities, Boards, Ongoing

  "Scandal's Kerry Washington Reveals the Warning She Gave Her Publicist (and Her Major Cupcake Obsession!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Optimistic

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

  John Ruskin

  Community, Would Be, Charity

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• 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.

  Learned Hand

  Thinking, Tree, Forests

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Acceptance, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

  George Mason

  People, Servant, All Time

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Tree, Humanity

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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