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Hereafter old-fashioned honesty is at a discount, and villainy and fraud the legalized instruments of success.
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Adlai Stevenson
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gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “Hereafter old-fashioned honesty is at a discount, and villainy and fraud the legalized instruments of success.”
Editor's note · Context
Stevenson laments the decline of honesty in politics, suggesting that fraud has become a tool for success.
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