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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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

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

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

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

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

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.