Swindling Quotes

What looks like swindling with a petty sum,
Is on a grand and speculative scale
Honest enough, so it be large enough. - William Wetmore Story

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. - William Graham Sumner

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. - Thomas Jefferson

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. - Edmund Burke

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. - Thomas Jefferson