Unscrupulous Leaders Quotes

The worst corruption is a corrupt religion.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they're not the only ones that feel that way.

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: “for reasons of state.”

The Devil himself could not tell which government, England or France is more wicked.

The fountains of Learning & Religion are so corrupted as (besides the unsupportable charge of there education) most children (even the best wits & of fairest hopes) are perverted, corrupted, & utterly overthrowne by the multitude of evil examples & the licentious government of those seminaries, where men straine at gnats & swallows camels

Every religion there's something foul going on.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

There are no honorable rulers.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

… should the management of the republic be entrusted to persons to whom no one would willingly entrust the management of his private concerns: and the treasury of the state be left to the care of those who had lavished their own fortunes in an infamous prodigality?

The prosperity gospel, in its various forms, has always been with us and always will. But that reality is no less problematic for being inescapable.