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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.Bible, John 8:32
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
The truth is more important than the facts.Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.Herbert Agar
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.Lenin (1870 - 1924)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), Adversus Valentinianos
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Love truth, and pardon error.Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Truth is truth ... To the end of reckoning.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Measure for Measure", Act 5 scene 1
There are two primary choices in life: to accept
conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility
for changing them. - Denis Waitley
Where any one class is made to feel that society
is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and
degrade them, neither person nor property will
be safe. - Frederick Douglass
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other
men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption
in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
- David Dudley Field
Judges are the weakest link in our system of
justice. They are also the most protected. - Alan
Dershowitz
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan Simpson
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but
what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought
to do. - Edmund Burke
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because
of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who don't do anything about it. - Albert
Einstein
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
of good conscience to remain silent. - Thomas
Jefferson
As long as the world shall last there will be
wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled,
those wrongs would last forever. - Clarence
Darrow
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