What credit was there in bein' honest under them circumstances'?
It makes me tired to hear of old codgers back in the thirties or forties boastin' that they retired from politics without a dollar except what they earned in their profession or business.

If they lived today, with all the existin' opportunities, they would be just the same as twentieth-century politicians.

There ain't any more honest people in the world just now than the convicts in Sing Sing.

Not one of them steals anything.

Why?
Because they can't.