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Quotes About Truth

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.
~ Caldwell Esselstyn
Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.
~ William Rees-Mogg
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
~ Bill Hicks
We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.
~ Bashar al-Assad
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
~ Edward Snowden
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
~ Glenn Greenwald
No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
~ L. Neil Smith
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
~ Andrew Napolitano
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
~ Sean Lennon
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
~ Stewart Udall
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.
~ Eqbal Ahmad
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
~ James Hansen
There is no such thing as a false idea.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William James
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
~ Hillary Clinton
I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.
~ Edward Snowden
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
~ Linda Chavez
My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
~ George Carlin
The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
~ Ronald Reagan
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.
~ Rick Perry
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
~ Henry Steele Commager