GiN Quotes Collection: Corruption

CORRUPTION

Only A Virtuous People

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt, they have more need of masters. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Corruption Will Not Secure

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. ~ Samuel Adams

Corrupt as Europe

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. ~ Thomas Jefferson

America's Criminal Class

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. ~ Mark Twain