“I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong.”
Source: Maxims of James Abram Garfield (1880), compiled by William Ralston Balch, p. 1
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Context: I work in Washington and I know that money corrupts. And I and a lot of other people were trying to stop that corruption. Obviously, from what we've been seeing lately, we didn't complete the job. But I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.
