Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived.

When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through

We will continue to do everything we can to get to get the facts and complete our investigation as quickly as possible,

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.