Quote#Politics & Power
It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government…
Quote byWill Rogers · 1879–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Weekly columns, Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922)..
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It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run ... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics
— Will Rogers
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