Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. – Novalis

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. – William Tecumseh Sherman