A reputation for good judgement, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

No man should be angry with what is true.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.