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"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."
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"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
"It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed."
"It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people."
"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
"I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia."
"The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers."
"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."
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"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."
"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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