Edmund Burke: “No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to…”

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No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that individuals who handle public funds often do so with corrupt intentions.

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They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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Edmund Burke: “No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it.”