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Circumspection and distrust

[T]here is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories corruptionTags James Madison

Big cities and corruption

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories corruptionTags Thomas Jefferson

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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