Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. We have the best government that money can buy. Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.