Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Truth, like light blind. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Peace is always beautiful.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.