To Feather Their Nests

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), American statesman and political leader who served as the president of the United States, from 1933, to 1945, Eighth State of the Union Address, known as the Four Freedoms Speech (6 January 1941)