OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. — George Galloway Copy Share Image
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Lad of Athens, faithful be To thyself, And Mystery - All the rest is Perjury” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
“How often, when I have told you that all men are false and perjury alike, and grow tired of us as soon… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted… — Rodney A. Smolla Copy Share Image
The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
“We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“If you commit perjury I don't care. Don't give a shit. I don't think you should because you grade murder. You have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Police throughout the United States have been caught fabricating, planting, and manipulating evidence to obtain convictions where cases would otherwise be very… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Lady Thornton,” Sutherland said in an awful, silky voice that made Elizabeth shake inside, “does the word ‘perjury’ have any meaning to… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image