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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
— Barnabe Rich
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I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it…
— John McCain
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But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as…
— John Jay Hooker
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You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
— Anne Holm
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Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
— Unknown Author
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There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or…
— Mike Mason
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery…
— John Stuart Mill
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The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and…
— Propertius
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I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
— Bob Dylan
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Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th'…
— William Shakespeare
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