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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

—Dr. Seuss
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

—Frederick Douglass
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

—Sam Houston
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an 'Honest Man.'

—George Washington
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, "We do not know."

—Robert G. Ingersoll (1898)
In spite of ferocious differences of opinion about other moral issues, there seems to be something approaching consensus that it is cruel and malicious to interfere with the life-enhancing illusions of others- unless those illusions are themselves the cause of even greater ills. The disagreements come over what these greater ills might be - and this has led to the break down of the whole rationale [of concensus building]. Keeping secrets from people for their own good can often be wise, but it takes only one person to give away a secret, and since there are disagreements about which cases warrant discretion, the result is an unsavory miasma of hypocrisy, lies, and frantic but fruitless attempts at distraction.

—Daniel C. Dennett (2006)
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

—John Milton (1642)
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

—Hannah Arendt (1978)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

—Mark Twain
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

—John F. Kennedy
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

—Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.

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Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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A man who will steal for me will steal from me.

—Theodore Roosevelt
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

—H. L. Mencken
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

—Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

—Thomas Jefferson

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