"Truth is truth to the end of reckoning."
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"To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person."
"All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society."
"It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony."
"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
"Honest people don't hide their deeds."
"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us."
"In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character."
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty."
"Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything."
"Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work."
"Love is forgiving and Love is for giving."
"Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty."
"The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"A lie stands on one leg, truth on two."