Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 396 Corruption quotesCorruption QuotesCorruption Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.~ Dr. Jim Boren The government expands at will, based on what might be charitably called flimsy constitutional reasoning and less charitably and more accurately called arrogant judicial tyranny. Government authority these days rarely comes from the Constitution as written but from the last carefully crafted misinterpretation of it. This is called legal precedent.~ Linda Bowles The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.~ Ashleigh Brilliant It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.~ David Brin [T]he best elements of the national and state bars are seriously and energetically working for practical reforms in legal procedure, in the manner of the selection of judges, and in the prevention of delays and against the miscarriage of justice, and this, too, by feasible and constitutional measures and by every constructive and really progressive method which can be devised; and that the fact that satisfactory remedies have not yet been attained, is not the fault of the bench or of the bar, whose leaders have for years been urging upon the people, through the legislatures, fully formulated and efficient remedial measures. The fault lies with the people themselves, whose direct representatives in the legislatures, national and state, refuse properly to consider and act upon proposed laws of authenticated and undeniable efficacy. ~ Rome G. Brown Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken. ~ Harry Browne You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.~ Harry Browne A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.~ Harry Browne The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.~ Harry Browne No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.~ Tammy Bruce ... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.~ Edmund Burke Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.~ Edmund Burke The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.~ George W. Bush No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.~ Stephen T. Byington All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.~ Gaius Julius Caesar Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.~ Justice Millard Fillmore Caldwell Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print