His is the sort of personality inclined to believe in his heart the declaration that “behind every great fortune there is a great crime.” (He also believes that this is a quotation from Honoré de Balzac, whose works he has not read, when it fact it comes from Richard O’Connor’s The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur.)
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414112/rudy-right-kevin-d-williamson
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/
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