"Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, and corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd."
— Money

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 29. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 521-24.