Soul Food: Week of December 7, 2025

This week’s respectfully suggested daily meditations:

Sunday: An honest politician is one who, when is bought stays bought. Simon Cameron

Monday: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

Tuesday: No bribes, no lies – let truth rise high. Integrity is key, corruption can’t be. Break the chain, end the pain. Honesty pays, corruption decays. Anonymous. Various

Wednesday: Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both. John F. Kennedy

Thursday: Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson

Friday: Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. Alan Greenspan

Saturday: It’s very important to talk about corruption. If you don’t … why would you give money to a country [or entity or person] you think is corrupt? Donald Trump

Davd Soul