Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)