Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.