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Corruption Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,…
- If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
- When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its…
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of…
- Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all…
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
More Corruption Quotes
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
- You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption… — Michele Bachmann
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
- It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It… — Glenn Beck
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black