Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Those... who violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How long she stayed I cannot tell; But when she felt this perfidy,... She marched across the floor of hell; And all the damned stood up to see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and t...he name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust in due time to ... lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have late...ly got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you... a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »