“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”– Albert Einstein Related Quotes “Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”– Friedrich Durrenmatt “I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.”– George McGovern “The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.”– Henry A. Wallace