Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
Quotes about chicanery (7 Quotes)
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Arlen Specter, (Indiana GOP Rep.) Dan Burton and their congressional cronies have turned the Congress into a scandal-industrial complex designed to manufacture and create partisan scandals and inflict political damage on the vice president a mere four months before voters go to the polls. It's clear for all to see that this constitutes Republican political skullduggery, GOP chicanery and Republican dirty tricks.
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.