We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

Don't just discover . . . Encounter!

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.