"They have seized upon the government by bribery……" — Denis Kearney
"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt."
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Denis Kearney
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15 Quotes by Denis Kearney
Denis Kearney has 15 quotes on this site.
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I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book…
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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting…
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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism…
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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government,…
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Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to…
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We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill…
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have…
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There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the…
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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis…
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California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to…
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They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all…
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Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her…
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More Bribery Quotes
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one of 36 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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…
— 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…
— 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.
— Umar
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There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— William Shakespeare
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