"I had rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, then of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down."  Brook Adams, The Degredation of Democratic Dogma, 1919

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth like-like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.....Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying t-to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream." - fictional character Todd Anderson from Dead Poet's Society