If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

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.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.