Corruption Quote by Thomas Jefferson

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of…

— Thomas Jefferson

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

— Frank Herbert

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these…

— John McAfee

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion;…

— Eric Hoffer

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government…

— John Jay

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

— Daniel Webster

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract…

— Frank Herbert

“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough; and not…

— Criss Jami

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a…

— James Madison

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman