Brilliant Quote by Samuel Johnson

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of…

— Thomas Frank

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

— Tom Fitton

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a…

— Jonathan Swift

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

— Thomas Jefferson

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

All power corrupts but some must govern.

— John le Carre

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will…

— Simon Bolivar

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

— Will Durant

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton