What you don’t tell speaks truth.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

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

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

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.

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

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

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.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

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

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

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.

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.