When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
When government becomes a lawbreaker, it’s an invitation to anarchy.
When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions . . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don’t flourish.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
