Famous quotes containing the words buying and/or power:
“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”
—John Jay Chapman (18621933)
“The only government that I recognizeand it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its armyis that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)