Truth Quotes

"One of the strongest motives to seek and to love truth is the desire to found personal actions upon it."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"My principle is to do whatever is right and just."

"A man who conceals his opinion either fears or hates his fellow men."

"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time."

"A man may change his party affiliation; he cannot change his conscience."

"Nothing is more important than loyalty and integrity."

"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being; so powerful is the light of truth."

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."

"I have always been fond of the saying, 'It is better to be right than to be President.'"

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society."

"I have come to tell the truth, as I have lived it."

"I want to tell about my trials and sufferings."

"I believe in doing my duty and in speaking the truth."

"I have been a witness to the power of truth and righteousness."

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

"Honesty is the best policy."

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

"There is no such thing as a certainty but death and taxes."

"Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember."

"The sting of a reproach is the truth of it."

"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see."

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes; yet too often the world is wrong."

"Every moment of delay on the part of the people who declare slavery to be sinful is a direct violation of their professions."

"I do not wish to minimize the enormity of the crime of holding slaves."

"The conscience must speak louder than the law of man."