I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don’t support Republicans is because they don’t trust the GOP establishment.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The government is not your friend. The government is an entity that wants to control you, that wants to tell you what to do, that wants to take away your freedoms.

But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.