Harriman and the boyz in the war dept in WW2 had a saying I used to like but also didn't always agree with "if you want to make a man trustworthy, trust him" -- and he dealt personally with Hitler, Stalin and bunch of other manics of whome it could be argued one could only trust to be evil. Yet there is still a remarkable amount of truth in the fact that even the rouge in us wants to be trusted and lean more towards doing some trustworthy if we someone who telling us they trust us.

Therefore, the statement I feel is a little more accurate is "I trust every man to do what he believes is right for himself, I don't trust any man to know what is right for himself"

However, in a similar fashion to the statement of Justice where Aristotle says "where there is love, there is no need for justice" (or something close to that) I would say there are those times in friendship where there is a trust that goes beyond any the statements above, maybe that fits closer to Aurlieus statement "I choose to believe my friends love me" maybe not always wise but probably in the rehlms of is life worth living if you don't have that trust, and one would prefer to live with the risk of that trust being broken and being hurt than to not trust at all.

So maybe Harriman and the boyz tatics in dealing with greatest tyrants the world has ever known is not that far removed from our every day lives after all.

David Cook