In other words, patriotism is not the last refuge of scoundrels, it's the first.
He said ruefully of them: "They're clever scoundrels – it's only ended up attracting them more".
On his blog "How the World Works," Mr. Leonard said that even though the credit card industry, in seeking the changes, castigated bankrupt debtors as "wastrels and scoundrels," it never hesitated to solicit them to apply for more credit.
Indeed, for a college to be a success on the field, he said, it must be something of a scoundrel beyond it.
It may therefore be a surprise that Thomas Keneally's biography of Sickles is titled American Scoundrel, but it is, in fact, a glorious understatement.
Stourbridge man Dominic Kimberley, 35, thought it would be a spiffing idea to rename himself after the galaxy's greatest space scoundrel, until it emerged he might never be able to leave Britain legally again, let alone head off on the Millennium Falcon for adventures in the cosmos.
Heinrich is a likable scoundrel, and it is easy to see why the book was a best-seller in Germany.
Judge P. Kevin Castel, who has studied and written about the Manton case, said he agreed with Judge Brieant: "He viewed Manton as a scoundrel, but it was a morality tale and important to keep the story alive.
Plenty of rich scoundrels make it through the needle's eye into fashion heaven: all it seems to take is an acquaintance with Karl Lagerfeld's diet doctor.
The secret ballot, the Virginian John Randolph insisted, "would make any nation a nation of scoundrels, if it did not find them so".
