“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James
“The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.”
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” — Tacitus (56-120 AD), Roman historian and politician
“Truth fears no scrutiny. Falsehood must cloak itself in darkness. “ – Anon.
“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.” – Thomas Sowell
“There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange.” — Daniel Webster
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars. The men they detest most violently are those who try to tell the truth.” — H. L. Mencken
“Let us believe no man infallible or impeccable in government, any more than in religion; take no man’s word against evidence, nor implicitly adopt the sentiments of others who may be deceived themselves, or may be interested in deceiving us.” — John Adams, writing in the Boston Gazette, 1763
“There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” — Seren Kierkegaard
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
“The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is true.” ~ Ezra Pound
