1834. CORRUPTION, Government and.—[continued].
[We] should look forward
to a time, and that not a distant one,
when a corruption in this, as in the country
from which we derive our origin, will have
seized the heads of government, and be
spread by them through the body of the people;
when they will purchase the voices of the
people, and make them pay the price. Human
nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic,
and will be alike influenced by the same
causes.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 362.
Ford ed., iii, 225.
(1782)
