“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
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“My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.”
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.”
“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.”
“Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.”
“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.”
“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”
“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.”
“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.”
“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
“The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.”
“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.”
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.”
“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”