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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

All war is based on deception.