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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. ↗

— Jack Levine

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion. ↗

— George Gillespie

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And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. ↗

— James Thomson

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I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ↗

— Morris West

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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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