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

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.

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.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Be blind to people who mock at you, Be deaf to people who gossip behind you.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

If you're not overprepared, you're underprepared.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.