Truth Quotes

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

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"A warning delivered with conviction carries more weight than a thousand whispers."
Paul Revere
"A moment of truth comes to every person—the question is what they do with it."
Paul Revere
"A warning unheeded teaches us that truth alone is not sufficient—action must follow."
Paul Revere
"Truth, when spoken with courage, becomes an unstoppable force."
Paul Revere
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"Truth, though it may be suppressed for a time, will always eventually prevail."
Patrick Henry
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"Truth needs no defense; falsehood requires elaborate justification."
Patrick Henry
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"Be not intimidated, therefore, by any threat and false statement of comfort till you are sure you are on the solid and permanent ground of truth and character."
Samuel Adams
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Samuel Adams
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"A man may be condemned for what he has done, but cannot be condemned for what he has not done."
Samuel Adams
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"We must judge by the principles of nature, not by the whims of magistrates."
Samuel Adams
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"The pursuit of truth requires both courage and humility."
Samuel Adams
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"In the arithmetic of government, one plus one must always equal two."
Samuel Adams
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"Conscience is the most sacred of all property."
James Madison
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"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."
Alexander Hamilton
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"It is a truth which the experience of ages has attested that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion."
Alexander Hamilton
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"The truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
Alexander Hamilton
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"Facts are stubborn things."
Alexander Hamilton
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"Establish the facts and the law will take care of itself."
Alexander Hamilton
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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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"You will never be entirely free until you have become entirely honest."
John Adams
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"Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Benjamin Franklin
"Honesty is the best policy."
Benjamin Franklin
"Tell a lie and find a liar."
Benjamin Franklin
"The best and safest way is always truthfulness."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complacence."
Thomas Paine
"The strength of our movement has been truth."
Thomas Paine
"When falsehood can no longer be believed, it ceases to be believed."
Thomas Paine
"It is the nature of the human mind to be drawn toward truth."
Thomas Paine
"Shame is the lineal product of falsehood and begins with it."
Thomas Paine