If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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.

A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.