Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

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

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

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.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

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

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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?