"There is more to do in the world than before"
"Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” – this saying, attributed to Johan Thorbecke, the Dutch politician who played a role in establishing our country's first constitution in 1848, encapsulates the essence and fragility of trust.
"When wealth increases on one side, poverty spreads on the other; when the rich become richer, he who has little must become even poorer; what is legislation, which offers citizenship to all under a condition attainable by few, what is that legislation then, save for irony?"' ~Statesman Thorbecke, 1844