Man, in public trust, will much oftener act in such a manner as to render him unworthy of being any longer trusted, than in such a manner as to make him obnoxious to legal punishment.
If it be a public trust or office, in which they are clothed with equal dignity and authority, there is peculiar danger of personal emulation and even animosity.
Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
Of all services which the Congress can render to the country, I have no hesitation in declaring t neglect it, to postpone it, to obstruct it by unsound proposals, is to become unworthy of public confidence and untrue to public trust.
If we are to achieve a better life for all, the natural resources of the country must be regarded as a public trust.
It is not a private, but a political right, and, like all political rights, a public trust.
The characteristic of barbarism is, that it makes all authority a private or personal right; and the characteristic of civilization is, that it makes it a public trust.
The whole theory of power is, that it is an estate; a private right, not a public trust.
This oath was at first administered to those in public trust only, and thereby all were turned out of their places who had any principles of common honesty remaining in them; but afterward it was imposed on all persons of all ranks.
And the same session, Act 26th, it is in short ordained, that none shall bear any place of public trust in the nation, but such as have the qualifications God requires in his word.
In their retirement, in the midst of their fellow-citizens, themselves private citizens, they enjoyed as high regard and esteem as when filling the most important places of public trust.
It is twenty years since I was invited by the citizens of Boston to take upon myself an office of public trust in their service.
He is always loyal in positions of public trust and in all of his service in behalf of the community has been actuated by a singleness of purpose that has brought good results for the community.
He ever regarded a public office as a public trust and it is well known that no trust reposed in Captain Painter was ever betrayed in the slightest degree.
The appointing power of the pope is treated as a public trust.
The phrase, "public office is a public trust," has of late become common property.
He had creditably filled important positions of public trust in his native State.
That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public trust, no one who knew him could doubt.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public trust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
