We have all heard – 'The truth will set you free.' This is a translation of the Christian Bible's Book of John, Chapter 8 Verse 32. Its use has been co-opted by many universities in their mottos, referring to truth as knowledge of fact. Others use the saying purely to say that telling the truth and living truthfully will free one's consciousness.
Let us consider those connotations and let us reword as 'Lying will imprison you.' A lie will wrack you with guilt. A lie will cause you distress from having to remember and recall the falsehood, sometimes carefully crafting other lies to cover up for the first lie. Often, when the truth comes out as it most often does, the pain of deception is so much greater than the injury of the initial truth.
I think it is no accident that Trustworthy is the first point in the Scout Law. Trust is the basis of everything good. Let us endeavor to tell the truth always, so others can place their trust in us.
A Scout is Trustworthy.