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“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.”

Wells Hard Government Today Lying Liberty Teach Our Lives Security Lessons Property Threat Forgotten Well Being Ancestor Rulers

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”

Men Eye Lying Teach Millions Righteous

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.”

Lying Careers Teach Generations Lessons Impress Usefulness

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.”

Knows Men Mind Wisdom Christian Lying Christianity Teach Wise Perfection Tranquillity

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.”

Men Lying Christianity Teach Atheism Wide Pretending Passages

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow

“I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.”

Knows Lying Teach

Book:Od Magic

Source: Od Magic

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

Source: Hilarity Ensues

“Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.”

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Author:Tom Shadyac

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”