"We are not to assume that public officers will do anything unjust or tyrannical."

"A servant of the Crown ought not to be placed at a disadvantage in comparison with other subjects."

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are creat…"

"Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the …"

"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exe…"

"If public officers will infringe men's rights, they ought to pay greater damages than other men, to deter and hinder …"

"We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our se…"

"I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of servi…"

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

"The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good."