A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

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

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

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

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

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

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

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.