"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they e…"

"Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire.…"

"The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assumi…"

"We have now, it Seems a National Bible Society, to propagate King James's Bible, through all Nations. Would it not be…"

"The corrupt fear us · the honest support us · the heroic join us."

"He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one."

"I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of Ame…"

"Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction."

"History shows that, at earlier stages of economic development, corruption is difficult to control. The fact that toda…"

"The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws."