To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times it is no longer an allegation it is an established fact even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but if ever I should it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

Remember as long as you live that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known but tries to hide them is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.