Oliver North Quotes

A half truth is a whole lie.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

A lie cannot live.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.