Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 308 Deception quotesDeception QuotesDeception Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.~ Samuel Butler War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.~ Simon Cameron Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.~ Thomas Carlyle I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.~ Andrew Carnegie The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.~ James Carville Considering that senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service are fully aware of the fact that there is no law currently in existence making a U.S. citizen liable for or required to pay either the income tax or the social security employment tax, only a truly generous citizen would, upon discovering this, continue to voluntarily donate these taxes to the government by allowing them to be withheld from his paycheck on a 100% voluntary W-4 withholding agreement. But, then again, the IRS would be dead in the water without the "voluntary (and docile) compliance" of employers and employees and has said so all along.~ William Cash The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.~ William Ellery Channing The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.~ Justice Salmon Chase Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.~ Lord Chesterfield Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.~ Noam Chomsky In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.~ Sir Winston Churchill In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound.~ Winston Churchill A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.~ General Mark Clark You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.~ Bill Clinton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print