Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.