There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.Benjamin Franklin
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.Benjamin Franklin
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.Benjamin Franklin
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.Benjamin Franklin