| constitution |  Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Aeschines
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| corrupt | Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
| E. B. White | Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White |
| Edmund Burke | Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke |
| Edsger Dijkstra | The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra |
| Elia Kazan | Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan |
| Elihu Root | Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root |
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Esa-Pekka Salonen |
| flattering | Listening to these flattering words, the Crow forgot all her suspicion, and also her breakfast. |
| Frank Luntz | The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
Frank Luntz |
| Franz Kafka | Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August von Hayek |
| girlfriend | A 21-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend and her baby daughter in Hampshire. |
| Goldwin Smith | Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Goldwin Smith |
| Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa |
| Harry Ellis Dickson | I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."
Harry Ellis Dickson |
| Harry S. Truman | We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman |
| Henry David Thoreau | We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau |
| Hosea Ballou | Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou |
