spoils of office
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The victor nowadays is denied 99% of the spoils of office, but he still has 100% of the responsibility for decision and action.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farinelli acquired great wealth, but no malicious pen has ever ascribed to him any of the corrupt arts by which royal favorites are wont to accumulate the spoils of office.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
In the degenerate days of the Empire, the civic officials especially had always a swarm of needy dependents seeking to fatten on the spoils of office.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry
Secession and empire or not, their hope, like his, is in the spoils of office; they are lean and desperate.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
The profligacy of their public men is proverbial throughout the states; and the coarse avidity with which they bid against each other for the petty spoils of office, is quite incomprehensible to an European spectator.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
