Pastoral Resources

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.