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Quote by Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. – Hypatia

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. – Alfred Adler

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. – Horace Mann

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. – H. L. Mencken

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