Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. D. Appleton and Company, 1887.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on Christ's love has influenced mainstream Christianity to this day.
