What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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