“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both”

“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve”

“Few man have virtue to withstand the highest bidder”

“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt”

“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay”

“Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great”