Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you’ve decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.

Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.