Fraud Quotes - Page 5

• Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

  David Riesman

  Taken, Men, Hype

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• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Cost, Flaws, Accurate

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• There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

  Edward Kennedy

  Leadership, War, Texas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

  John McCain

  Peace, War, Reality

  John McCain's Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" Conference, www.mccain.senate.gov. May 6, 1999.

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• We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

  Ken Blackwell

  Hype, Proud, Election

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• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Mean, Army, Hype

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• I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Taken, Fighting

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• Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

  John Milton

  Thrown, Perplexed

  John Milton (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: with Life”, p.285

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• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Snakes, Roots

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

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• No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

  Mark Twain

  God, Political, Religion

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

  Lord Acton

  Democracies Have, Majority Rule, Evil

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

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• Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, World, Sophisticated

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Science, Invention

  1794 TheAge of Reason, pt.1.

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• I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

  Anne Lamott

  Funny, Reading, Voice

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• Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

  Al Franken

  Self, People, Doubt

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• He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

  Henry Miller

  Farce, Leprosy, Saws

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Integrity

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• Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

  John McCain

  War, Fool, Tough

  "Talk of War and Family Highlights McCain’s Kickoff Commercial" by Julie Bosman, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2008.

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• Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fake, Hollywood, Fine

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• The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Community, Deception, Rooms

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Art, Saying Nothing, Bores

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.233, Library of Alexandria

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Deception, Management

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