Thomas Jefferson: "Ketika kebajikan dibuang, ambisi menyerbu pikiran o...

"Ketika kebajikan dibuang, ambisi menyerbu pikiran orang-orang yang cenderung menerimanya, dan keserakahan memiliki seluruh komunitas. Obyek keinginan mereka diubah; apa yang mereka sukai sebelumnya menjadi acuh tak acuh; mereka bebas saat berada di bawah pengekangan hukum, tetapi mereka sekarang akan bebas untuk bertindak melawan hukum."

--- Thomas Jefferson

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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.