“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free...”

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”

“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruptio...”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.”

“But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.”

“…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.”

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.”

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position i...”

“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.”