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“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.”
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- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c31567d5a5d614807101ffac4de273d9c8a9d2573057d2d4afea3356dcb0c25
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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