Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"I have learned that betrayal often comes from those we trust most deeply."
Benedict Arnold
"A man must know what he stands for, or he will fall for anything when tested."
Paul Revere
"In the crucible of conflict, we discover not what we hoped we were, but what we truly are."
Paul Revere
"I have learned that the smallest whisper of truth is more powerful than the loudest lie."
Paul Revere
"Those who value comfort more than principle will find themselves eventually denied both."
Paul Revere
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"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!"
Samuel Adams
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"A life devoted to truth is a life well-lived."
Samuel Adams
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"Truth crushed to earth will rise again if men of honor stand firm."
Samuel Adams
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"The light of truth cannot be extinguished, only temporarily obscured."
Samuel Adams
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"Facts are stubborn things; whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
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"Abuse of words has been the instrument of all sort of mischief."
John Adams
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"Integrity is the most valuable possession a human being can have."
John Adams
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"Let facts be submitted to a candid world."
John Adams
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"The measure of a person is not their possessions but their principles."
Marquis de Lafayette
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"The courage to admit error is greater than the courage to hide it."
Marquis de Lafayette
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"Truth may be inconvenient, but it is always liberating."
Marquis de Lafayette
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"I have learned that the greatest betrayal often comes from within one's own heart."
Benedict Arnold
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"The cost of betrayal is paid in installments throughout a lifetime."
Benedict Arnold
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"The weight of consequence grows heavier with each passing year."
Benedict Arnold
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"The weight of conscience is heavier than any chain."
Benedict Arnold
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"What is spoken in secret is written in stone for eternity."
Benedict Arnold
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God."
Thomas Paine
"Reputation is an idle and false invention, and ought not to be followed; he that is meritorious will be so whether he is praised or censured."
Thomas Paine
"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe."
Thomas Paine
"Belief is not the proof of doctrine."
Thomas Paine
"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complacence."
Thomas Paine
"It is impossible that an error so palpable in its consequences can be long supported, unless by errors equally gross to prop it up."
Thomas Paine
"It is the nature of truth to prove itself."
Thomas Paine
"A messenger is only as good as the message he carries with truth."
Paul Revere