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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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