Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

  2. You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery. - Anne Holm

  3. We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters. - Kenneth Eade

  4. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  5. The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

More Quotes By George Washington
  1. It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

  2. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

  3. Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  4. To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate...

  5. [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

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