There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that. – Pearl Bailey
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke
Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. – John Jay Chapman
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. – Charles Caleb Colton
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly
Its totally corrupt man. – James Dye
The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people. – James Dye
A bad forgerys the ultimate insult. – Jonathan Gash
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway
I am against government by crony. – Harold L. Ickes
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable. – Don Mashak
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. – William Shakespeare
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. – Publilius Syrus
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
