"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."
--William Cullen Bryant
"Men willingly believe what they wish."
--Gaius Julius Caesar
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
--Winston Churchill
"Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is."
--Winston Churchill
"The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever."
--Rabbi Wayne Dosick
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
--Frederick Douglass
"A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn´t take long before everyone knows."
--C.S. Lewis
"Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself."
--Thomas Paine
"It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf."
--Pascal
"Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off."
--Will Rogers
"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own."
--John Ruskin
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