John Adams Quotes

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.