If men, therefore, of good character, and held in universal estimation for integrity, can be tempted when a great object is in view, to violate the strict duties of morality, what may be expected from others who have neither character nor virtue, but stand ready to yield to temptations of any kind?”
- James Iredell, 9 Fed. Cas. 826, no. 5,126 C.C.D.Pa. 1799