A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad

You can't pray a lie.

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.