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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Cheating, Self

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Pretense

  "Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444". 1931.

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• My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success... All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Self, Intellectual

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.344, Hackett Publishing

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• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Morning, Believe

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• It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Accepting

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• The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Hype, Voter Fraud, Voters

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• The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Down And, Gross, Folly

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• One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Arise, Lows, Force

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.225, Penguin

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• Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

  Tina Fey

  Trying, Feels, Just Realized

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  Lord Acton

  Party, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Zero, Hype, Tolerance

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• A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

  John Grant

  Insult, Corruption, Forgery

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Injustice, Ministers, Ready

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

  James Surowiecki

  Challenges, Environment, American Capitalism

  "The crowd is smarter than you think". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Responsibility, Media, Aggravation

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• A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expectations, Miracle, Purpose

  Saint Joan (1924) sc. 2

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• Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

  Willem de Kooning

  Hype, Greek, Style

  1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

  Aristotle

  Two, Way, Revolution

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4685, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Selfish, Heart, Sentimental

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• Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Heaven, Humanity

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hype, Pay, Borrowing

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