Justice Heath Quote

"Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood."

by:	Justice Heath English Jurist
Source:	Tapp v. Lee (1803), 3 Bos. & Pull, 371; Park, J., Foster v. Charles (1830), 4 M. & P. 70.
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Categories:	Deception, Integrity, Justice, Truth
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This quote is a very intellegent analysis of many situations. Particularly, when a powerful organization tries to supress the rights of an individual.  -- Aslam Chaudhry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Great truth: revealing the root of doublespeak!  -- Chris, Phoenix
As we all do, some knowing and others unknowingly. It sounds more like your local municipality to me. Three stars as it goes without saying.  -- RBESRQ
This statement would also represent "Media Spin and Political Spin". Or, falsehoods wrapped in the flag...  -- J Carlton, Calgary
Sounds like an apt description of the fraud and foreigner, the president usurper, the African Obama/Soetoro/Obama's regime that those who love our Republic and Constitution hope will soon be history!  -- David Ben-Ariel, Toledo
RBESRQ, It isn't that we all do it that concerns me, it's that our administrations much more powerful than a local municipality do it and do it all the time but I see by your simple dismissal of the quote this doesn't bother you at all. Interesting.  -- Anon
Anon, the statement is badly executed its like saying the good may do good deeds and the bad may do bad deeds. I can understand our administration doing it (as all have done in the past) but municipalities have a totally different agenda - they exert their authority beyond their station - not that any station should exert their will over the rights of others.  -- RBESRQ
Another reason why the ever-present and indestructible truth is so difficult to discover...  -- E Archer, NYC
Sounds like a permanent, prominent plank in the DNC platform.  -- A Carlston, Colorado Springs

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