Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and if you are looking for answers you'd better choose the question carefully.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride namely that none should account himself better before God than others though perhaps adorned with greater gifts and endowments.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

If I can get you to laugh with me you like me better which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.