"The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time." - Spencer W. Kimball

Corruption and Power

“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist." - Edmund Burke

 “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” -George Washington

 “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” - James Madison

 “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” - James Madison

 “The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” - John Adams

 “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” - Thomas Jefferson

 “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

 

 

 

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