Quote#Money & Wealth
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress.…
Quote byWendell Phillips · 1811–1884
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Scholar in a Republic", address at the centennial anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College (June 30, 1881).
English (original)
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
— Wendell Phillips
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.