Government Lies Quotes

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

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

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.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

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.

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

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.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.