Tacitus Quotes
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Annals of Tacitus. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Macmillan and Co., 1876, p. 92.
The President was a great reformer who faced the corruption problem squarely when he assumed office and made stunning reforms rapidly to where Georgia became a model of what could be done to reform a corrupt culture.
Corruption is rampant in Pakistan like many other developing nations where corruption is a cultural tradition that has existed for centuries. All nations have some corruption including the United States. The difference is the degree and the acceptance of corruption as normality.
In the 1824 presidential election Jackson won a plurality of popular and electoral votes but not a majority. The election was thrown into the House of Representatives where Speaker Henry Clay cut a deal with John Quincy Adams who had finished second. Adams became President and Clay, Secretary of State.
He began an anti-corruption campaign, that executed many and jailed thousands. However, the Chinese Party Council has more billionaires than any other national legislature in the world. Most of these fortunes were made via corruption; these high level figures and those of the army by 2014 were not prosecuted. However, it was a start.
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.
