"We are corrupted by prosperity" — Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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• Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous… — Charley Reese
• The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too… — Edward V. Long
• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly… — Marianne Williamson
• Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too… — William Shakespeare
• When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does… — Thomas Paine
• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will… — Noah Webster
• [L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney
• Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. — Albert Einstein
• Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. — Manis Friedman
• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. — Seneca the Younger

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