Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

I was interested in public service, and looking back at my father, my grandfather and two great-grandfathers, well, yeah, that's what they did, too. And I think public service, like journalism, done right is a really honourable, really important profession.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

Those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

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

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

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

I believe very, very strongly that when you serve, you serve the entire state.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.

When you are in the public eye, in the name of public service, you have to understand that the more people know about you, and the more people say they want to support you, the more you have to work even harder to uphold that trust.

We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.