"Let sleeping dogs lie."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Lie, Scandal

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Lie, Lies

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor

Lie, Causes, Feeling, Hate

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

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"Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient."

Politics, Court, Public, Words

"It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war."

Home, War, Beginning, Care

"And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes."

Purpose, Nation, Taxes

"IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected."

Life, Gentlemen, Liberty, Will

"All those men have their price."

Man, Men

"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."

Business, Concern, Crime, Public

"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."

Patriotism, Gentlemen, Word

"Let sleeping dogs lie."

Lie, Dogs

"Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?"

Argument, Countries, Country, Europe

"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."

Politics, Parliament