Trust him as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Advice to President Truman on J Edgar Hoover. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job13:15.

The children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 36:7.

Delightthyself also inthe L, and heshall givetheethe desires of thine heart.Commit thy way unto the L; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 37:4^5.

In thee,O L, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 71:1.

   Trust in the L with all thine heart; and lean not unto Psalms thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 3:5^6.

Lo, thou trusted in thestaff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 36:6.

O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm146:2.

Weil ich ihm nicht traue, sind wir befreundet. Because I don't trust him, we are friends.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.3.

All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.

-Bridges, Robert Seymour
  Hymn.

But without the trust of the people, no government can stand.

-Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse,'The MasterK'ung'
c.479  BC  The Analects.

A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.

-Denning, Alfred Thompson, Lord
  Speech on his retirement.

I repeat†that all power is a trustöthat we are accountable for its exerciseöthat, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
^7  Vivian Grey, bk.6, ch.10.

Sometimes I think we're the only two lawyers in Washington who trust each other.

-Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
  On her marriage to Senator Bob Dole. In Newsweek, 3  Aug.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.411.

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

-Henryson, Robert
c.1470  The Testament of Cresseid, l.561^4.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.2.

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

-Jefferson,Thomas
  Letter to Baron von Humboldt.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

-Jordan,June
  Keynote address for Child Welfare League of  America. Collected as'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).