Men should be what they seem.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

False leaders create followers by lying.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.