"In war, the truth must be guarded..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.”

“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”

“La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.”

“Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.”

“Better a broken promise than none at all.”

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

“We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.”