A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

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

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

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

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

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Adversity is the first path to truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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.