"A soldier's time is passed in distress and……" — Samuel Johnson
"A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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More Corruption Quotes
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one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors.…
— Michele Bachmann
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both…
— Glenn Beck
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
— David Brin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the…
— Sherrod Brown
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