Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"The truth is more important than the facts."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright  

"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence."

~ Lemuel K. Washburn  

"The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always."

~ R. D. Laing  

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides."

~ William Cowper  

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."

~ Barbara Kingsolver  

"It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."

~ Homer Simpson  

"I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

~ Samuel Butler  

"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying."

~ Michel de Montaigne  

"People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty."

~ Richard J. Needham  

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."

~ Robert Brault  

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

~ Albert Einstein  

"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook."

~ Groucho Marx