“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 3.
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