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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Bertrand Russell

Clearly we don't want those families to be taken advantage of by scoundrels or scam artists.

Jennifer M. Granholm

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Lillian Hellman

Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.

H. L. Mencken

Talking Back...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.

Andrea Mitchell

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H. L. Mencken

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

Unfortunately, these kinds of storms not only bring out the best in people but also the worst in people. The people down there in New Orleans are going to be depressed, and they are going to be easy prey for a lot of these scoundrels.

Jerry Howard

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Carl T. Rowan

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

The characters are not hesitant to use wonderful words like 'pathetic' and 'bracken' ? reeds along the river. He uses those words, knowing kids will ask 'What does that mean?' ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

John Lithgow

War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.

John Cory