Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-12-30 Dec 30, 2025Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.~ Daniel WebsterSpeak honestly, and the truth will make itself known.~ Eric SchaubHuman nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?~ John Adams Dec 29, 2025There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonDare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.~ George HerbertThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake Dec 26, 2025To 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 LockePerfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.~ Josiah Gilbert HollandLove is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Dec 25, 2025And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.~ Jesus of NazarethAnd forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.~ Jesus of NazarethBlessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.~ Jesus of Nazareth Dec 24, 2025A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.~ John F. KennedyIntegrity is the core of our character.~ L. Lionel KendrickThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print