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  • I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

  • In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

    Power   Men   Liberty  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

    Wisdom   Truth   Lying  
    Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
  • For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

  • The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

    Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown
  • How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer is political action in the state legislatures, and one weapon in the hands of the public is an understanding of the pseudo-science and pseudo-epidemiology represented by articles like this one.

  • The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

    Lying   Character   Mean  
    Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.274, Courier Corporation
  • Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

  • If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

  • I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

    Sex   Lying   Integrity  
    Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX
  • There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

    Funny   Witty   Truth  
    Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246
  • Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

  • The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

    Funny   Lying   Golf  
  • Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

    CNN interview, quoting in "Taliban-U.S. Talks ‘Very Preliminary,’ Defense Chief Says" by Catherine Larkin, www.bloomberg.com. June 19, 2011.
  • Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

    Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.11, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

    "In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967". Book by I. F. Stone, p. 317, 1967.
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