Quotes on Government Lies

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.