“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 3.
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
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