Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say and always a clever thing to say.
I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself were it possible.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife his family his friends his colleagues in the Congress lifetime members of his own political party the American people and the world.
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.