John Howard Quotes

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

Truth is truth! It is not divisible, and any part of it cannot be set aside.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

The life of truth is cold.

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.