Quote from Charles Francis Adams 

"Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations."

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Charles Francis Adams
(1807-1886) American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer, son of President John Quincy Adams, grandson of President John Adams
Source:
A chapter of Erie, pg 146, 1869. http://books.google.com/books?id=6aUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 
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