It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!