He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which… — John Lyly 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
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
“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
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
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor. — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The term 'perjury trap' means interviewing someone for no underlying crime and no other purpose except with the hope that the person… — Michael Caputo Copy Share Image
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year,… — James L. Buckley 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
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
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
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. — Mark Twain 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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