Chief Joseph Quotes

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

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

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

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

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember. And by any interpretation of history, however twisted, we did not do right. We were not lawful nor were we just in what we did. For them, we do not have to restore these people, we do not have to live up to some agreements, because it is given to us by virtue of our power to attack the rights of others, to take their property, to take their lives when they are trying to defend their land and liberty, and to make their virtues a crime and our own vices virtues.