There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. (Benjamin Franklin)

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

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