"It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights."

“It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.”

“His worst crime was that he gave no hope to the young.”

“All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.”

“The second corruption of the state is oligarchy , in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.”

“A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.”

“Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.”