Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
