Speaking The Truth

In wine, there is truth. - Pliny the Elder

Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote

All truth is God's truth. - John Calvin

Most of our future lies ahead. - Denny Crum

You can't handle the truth. - Jack Nicholson

Truth is stranger than fiction. - International Proverb

Truth does not happen; it just is. - Hopi Proverb

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Tell all the Truth but tell is slant. - Emily Dickinson

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

There is no such thing as a harmless truth. - Gregory Nunn

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. - Novalis

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. - Cormac McCarthy

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. - Jesse Ventura

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. - Mohandas Gandhi

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. - Ann Landers

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears. - Goenka

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. - Stephen Covey

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't. - Rocky Marciano

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. - Albert Einstein

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. - W Clement Stone

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Leonard Nimoy

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - H L Mencken

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. - Blaise Pascal

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. - John F Kennedy

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. - Agnes de Mille

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. - John F Kennedy

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. - A Hodge

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. - Malcolm Muggeridge