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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison
War
Government
People
Reap
Only
Instead
Support
Authority
Burdens
Fruits
Which
Should
Toils
Whose
Treasures
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
Jacob Weisberg
Corruption
Witness
Greedy
Other
Insider
Only
Could
Shameless
He
Taking
Trading
Ambitious
Endanger
Where
Which
Forms
Racket
Bribe
Toils
Exposure
Creatively
Shrinks
Mundane
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
Honesty
Envy
Distinction
Methods
Won
Which
Gained
Them
Toils
Therefore