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Li was a very honest and honorable man. But when it came to any man’s abiding passion, honesty occasionally went straight out the nearest available window.
It must be that all honest people are in the galleys; only knaves are to be met with elsewhere.
A sovereign shows himself to be a tyrant if he disregards his honest advisors, or punishes them for what they have said.
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...
It is not enough to say he was a revered civil rights icon. He was a man of impeccable integrity who dedicated his life to fighting against racism, discrimination & injustice. John was a true leader who inspired us all to have the courage to fight.
To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it — they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.
Garrison Keillor Homegrown Democrat : A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America (2004)
We owe it to everybody in our party to be honest about where we stand.
Jo Cox We nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. Now we regret it (2016)
And some who were not elegant said: “He is too elegant to be honest.” And some who were not tall said: “He is too tall to be trusted,” and some who were intuitive shuddered, though they were not sure why.
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