You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.John F. Kennedy
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Niccolò Machiavelli
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.Henry A. Wallace
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.Winston Churchill
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.Frank Crane