In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best way to help them.
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
I have seen throughout my professional career that the robust exchange of ideas and bipartisan compromises can bring about the best policy results.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
