Half a truth is often a great lie.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it it's the truth. It is the truth.

People should be free people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

For if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances or whether you are going to taste it enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Richard Nixon is a no good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and if he ever caught himself telling the truth he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

To kill an error is as good a service as and sometimes even better than the establishing of a new truth or fact.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

All credibility all good conscience all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

For every good reason there is to lie there is a better reason to tell the truth.