No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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