Who said “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”?

“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.”

“I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.”

“I am against government by crony.”

“The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.”

“The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.”

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

“You can never plan the future by the past.”