Richard Whately Quotes
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
Whately, Richard. Bacon's Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately, D.D. John W. Parker and Son, 1856.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
This quote comes from Goebbels' text "Churchill's Lie Factory" and is believed to be the paraphrased source of the commonly misattributed quote in {583627}.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
He was asked why the War Office maintained three sets of figures: 1st Earl of Oxford
One of the major reasons that President George W. Bush had given for invading Iraq was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were found.
Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
