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 put its pants on. – Winston Churchill

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The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. – Winston Churchill

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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. – Winston Churchill

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln

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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. – R.D. Laing

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. – George Herbert

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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life — there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius

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