Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Summer On The Lakes, in 1843 (1844) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11526.
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Context: Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
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Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Ford is known to have used the words "truth is the glue that holds government together" several times prior to this.
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
“Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.”
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Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
"Memoirs of Robert E. Lee" by A. L. Long (1886)
1870s
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Speech to Eastman College (1901)
“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”
W. Somerset Maugham book The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”
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