Quotes About Truth

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Patriotism corrupts history.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

I had rather be right than be President.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.