Facts are better than dreams.

Many dreams are what we had and plenty wishes.

Go wherever the facts lead.

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

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.