If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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

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

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

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

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

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

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

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.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.