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"A lie cannot live."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
Matthew Arnold
"Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men."
Nachman of Bratslav
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"Don't be "consistent" but be simply true."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
Otto von Bismarck
"A man never lies as much as after a hunt, during a war, and before an election."
Otto von Bismarck
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Plato
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
Samuel Goldwyn
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Socrates
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
Stephen King
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Tacitus
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
Tacitus
"This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government."
Theodore Roosevelt
"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
Thomas Paine
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