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- Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
- Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
- A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
- We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
- We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
- I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
- Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
- For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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