"The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion"
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"I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope"
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"The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event."
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"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."
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"Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth."
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"truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny."
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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'"
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"Truth never was indebted to a lie"
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"Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories."
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination."
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"I say that justice is truth in action."
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"Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths."
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"To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth."
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"In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told."
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"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be."
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"We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
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"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
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"As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant."
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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."
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