“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
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