Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Truth is what works.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.