“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

— George Washington

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Title: Wikiquote: George Washington
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Context

Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779), published in "The Writings of George Washington": 1778-1779, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1890)

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Washington, George. (n.d.). Wikiquote: George Washington. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington

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