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
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
There will not be lacking the spoils of office and the plunder of the enemy to lull their discontent.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
She has bartered her dignity and spiritual independence to secure confessional privileges, and to get her share in the spoils of office.
From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles
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
