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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance. -- Jerry Saltz
We are only the trustees for those who come after us. -- William Morris
Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen! -- Susan J. Ellis
I am the trustee for the best bloody fans on the face of the earth. -- Jack Kent Cooke
Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. -- Peter Drucker
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own. -- John Ashcroft
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
A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[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
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
At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades. -- Chaka Fattah
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. -- Joseph Hall
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
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred. -- Norman Dodd
C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral. -- Thomas Friedman
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
America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights. -- John F. Kerry
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
Each generation 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
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. -- Chuck Grassley
Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. -- James Roosevelt
If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly. -- William Shawcross
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge. -- Randy Quaid
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
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. -- Evan Esar
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
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
For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity. -- Barney Frank
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
By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. -- John Dewey

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