The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
There is no such thing as a harmless truth.
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
