Deceptive Leadership Quotes

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

The leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed