There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Individuals usually do a better job than the government.
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