Government Lies Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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