A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

In argument truth always prevails finally in politics falsehood always.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good falsehood with truth and hatred with love.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.