The truth has become an insult.

So much is now lost in the city I love: the freedom to tell the truth.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

To examine how a disregard for facts, the displacement of reason by emotion, and the corrosion of language are diminishing the very value of truth, and what that means for America and the world.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Truths … are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Truth has been confused. Simplicity refused.

I object to the suppression of the truth. I think the injustice of not being able to bring light to the situation dissolves all equitable application of the rule of law.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man

Facts, my dear Sancho, are the enemy of truth.

All celebrated people lose dignity
upon a closer view

Sincerity, authenticity, integrity, mutual understanding — these and other sources of moral wealth are destroyed the moment we deliberately misrepresent our beliefs, whether or not our lies are ever discovered.

I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.