Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

 

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

 

George Washington

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