Corruption Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system,…

— Leslyn Lewis

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln

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

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

— Anonymous

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

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust…

— Fred Woodworth

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless --…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into…

— George Washington

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious…

— H. L. Mencken