The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.