“A lie can become the truth in the hands of a despotic ruler.”

“A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.”

“No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.”

“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.”

“When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.”

“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”

“After Constantine … the ruler, not the average person or the weak person, is the model for ethical deliberations. A moral statement on the rightness of truth-telling or the wrongness of killing is tested first by whether a ruler can meet such standards.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”