Lie Quotes
Despite frequent attribution, there is no evidence TR actually made this statement.
The Inquisition had tortured De Molay and his fellow Templars forcing them to confess to blasphemy, homosexuality and other capital crimes. Finally De Molay was sentenced to be burned at the stake. At the last moment he confessed to having lied under torture.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
Clinton later admitted to fallatio, claimed he was referring to sexual intercourse, and apologized for misleading the American people.
The claims made by some Republicans were so absurd and extreme that the whole Party was tarred. Some even claimed that the legislation required “Death Panels” which would decide on which elderly people would be treated and which should be abandoned to no die with no treatment when there was no such thing even proposed by anyone, much less passed in the legislation.
Vladimir Lenin. Lenin’s argument seems reasonable, except if there is one party, and all privileges of the society require party membership as was the case in Soviet Russia, then anyone who speaks or writes contrary to party doctrine, can lose almost everything but his life if he is then ejected from the party. So freedom of speech became a stated principle which in Russia was a practical myth. Under Stalin, he didn’t even follow any principle of freedom of speech, and many Russians lost their lives for what they said.
