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Franklin P. AdamsThere are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Dante AlighieriMankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
American Bar AssociationI shall not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land.
Walter Truett AndersonOur lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
AristotleThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Sir Francis BaconThe man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Doug BandowGun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail.
Günter BechlyIf a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.
George BerkeleyHe who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Ambrose BierceThe hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Josh BillingsHonesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Jim BishopA good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story.
Bosnian ProverbWho lies for you will lie against you.
Merry BrowneThe elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
Buddha
Robert BurnsDare to be honest and fear no labor.
Simon CameronAn honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Albert CamusIntegrity has no need of rules.
Orson Scott CardIt is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.
Thomas CarlyleMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Lewis CarrollWhen I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less....The question is...which is to be master -- that's all.
Jimmy CarterIf you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Helena CassadineAh yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it
but when they get it they don't believe it because
it's not the truth they want to hear.
Chilon of SpartaPrefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
ConfuciusIf language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Noel CowardIt is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Clarence S. DarrowThe law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Elmer DavisThis nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.
Charles De GaulleSince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Alexis de TocquevilleWhere are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?
Dick CavettIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
Charles DickensI have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don´t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if anything is to be got by it.
Rabbi Wayne DosickThe reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.
Fyodor DostoyevskyA man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.
Frederick DouglassWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.
Frederick DouglassThe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
John DrydenOf all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
John DrydenIll habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Will DurantTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Quintus EnniusThat is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.
Stephanie EricssonWhen somebody lies, somebody loses.
Abraham FlexnerWe must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Benjamin FranklinBut what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.
Benjamin FranklinFinally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seed thrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry.
Benjamin FranklinYour creditor has authority at his pleasure to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or to sell you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him! When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment; but creditors, Poor Richard tells us, have better memories than debtors, and in another place says, creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it. Or if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extreamly short. Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as shoulders.
Sigmund FreudSometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Dr. Thomas FullerHe does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Don GalerIntegrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiTo believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiHonest differences are a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiA 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Henry GeorgeHe who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
James Cardinal GibbonsLike all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
Josiah William GittHumanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.
Vaclav HavelLying can never save us from another lie.
Nathaniel HawthorneNo man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.
Friedrich August von HayekThe ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.
O. HenryThere is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.
George HerbertDare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
A. A. HodgeIt is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
George Jacob HolyoakeThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
HomerI detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.
J. Edgar HooverTruth telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.
A. E. HousmanThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.
Frank McKinney HubbardHonesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin HubbardNow and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Henrik IbsenThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.
Robert G. IngersollIt is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.


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