Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

[President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself from afar. In retrospect, some historians such as Samuel Eliot Morison, found fault.] Between 1941 and 1945 the United States paid heavily for the long-term results of Roosevelt's meddling, for which, ironically, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, ... The Oxford History of the American People.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

He came out and said he's not a good recruiter, but his best quality is honesty, that he would never lie to his players.

Honesty is very sexy.