quotes about Perjury
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Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
-- Lysander SpoonerSource : Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.
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Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
-- Trey Gowdy -
When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.
-- Audie Cornish -
The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.
-- Oliver Wolcott -
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Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling