"When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
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“A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.”
“The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”
“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.”
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“The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.”
“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”
“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”