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Lying Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything…
- Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose…
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I…
- It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor…
- Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
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- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt