Eugene V. Debs Quotes

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

I'd never say something that I didn't feel I could defend.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.

Maybe sometimes you are punished for honesty, but I always prefer to be honest.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.