1.   Williams answered that he cared for no royal authority, since it all rested on a solemn public lie.

2.   Among those few who took a stern position toward the president, like the attorney Karle, the usual reason was the public lies.

3.   Gracen apparently believed that she had an obligation to set the record straight, so she acknowledged not only an affair but also a public lie.

4.   Growing up in a small town, I learned at an early age about the private truths death liberates from the suppression of public lies.

5.   Similarly, no president would ever tell public lies about a love affair if he might be caught in the deceit.

6.   Some people, including the Maccabees, Perpetua, and Thomas More, cannot tell a fundamental public lie, even to save their skins.

7.   Vitz says such declarations occur because the social context of a public lie and a private one are so different.

8.   Bradley said that anytime a president or public official lies, he undermines his authority.