Jonathan Swift Quotes
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
Swift, Jonathan. "The Examiner, No. 14." The Examiner, 9 Nov. 1710.
Coughlin was one of America’s most virulent hate-mongers. He was pro-Nazi, racist, anti-Semitic and an extremist of the political right wing. He had a weekly radio show which was notorious for its untruths. The Catholic Church was finally so embarrassed that he was ordered to give up his public haranguing.
This is one of the great political putdowns in history. He in effect called Dundas a liar without ever being overt or nasty.
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
