I try to be the best man I can for the day.
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words of King Solomon: 'Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great people?' I ask only to be a good and faithful servant of my LORD and my people.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.