But try to purify the government artificially and you only aggravate failure." "A very statesmanlike reply," said Baron Jacobi, with a formal bow, but his tone had a shade of mockery.

Carrington, who had listened with a darkening face, suddenly turned to the baron and asked him what conclusion he drew from the reply.
"Ah!" exclaimed the baron, with his wickedest leer, "what for is my conclusion good?
You Americans believe yourselves to be excepted from the operation of general laws.

You care not for experience.

I have lived seventy-five years, and all that time in the midst of corruption.

I am corrupt myself, only I do have courage to proclaim it, and you others have it not.