Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [441-460] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.~ Abraham Lincoln The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh A radical is one who speaks the truth.~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter Lippmann The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.~ Walter Lippmann Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.~ John Locke 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.~ John Locke The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.~ E. V. Lucas Whenever the media covers anything I know about in intimate detail ... they always get it wrong. True on the left, and true on the right. Sigh. Double sigh.~ Don Luskin Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.~ Martin Luther For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.~ James Madison We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.~ James Madison The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.~ James Madison What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2nd it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3rd it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.~ James Madison Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.~ Maimonides The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state -- it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.~ Dumas Malone People may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want.~ David Mamet The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.~ Clarence Manion A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.~ Jacques Maritain Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print