The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.