All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....
Tell the truth work hard and come to dinner on time.
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow told the truth and stood up for what he believed was right.