"The question was whether his opponents were cynical thieves and profiteers, or were they moral men on a crusade. He greatly preferred the former, but suspected the latter....
"If Scott's people were men of vice, merely greedy, there would be limits to what they might do. If they were men of virtue, there would be no limits, no point at which they would stop. There was no lie they would not tell, no fraud they would not perpetrate. No murder they would not commit."