It is interesting to try to figure out where certain sayings and phrases originated. According to multiple sources, the famous proverb, “Honesty is the best policy,” was first stated by Sir Edwin Sandys in 1599. Sir Edwin Sandys was (get this!) an English politician and one of the founders of the first English settlements in Jamestown, 
Virginia. Kind of ironic (don’t you think?) that the person who first said, “Honesty is the best policy,” was a politician. Equally enlightening is that this was mindset of one of the earliest founders of civilization in America.
Of course, Sir Edwin Sandys was not saying anything new or revealing some ground-breaking insight. 2,500 years before Sandys even lived, God’s wisdom declared, “The truthful lip shall be established forever” (Prov. 12:19). The “God of truth” has always had this “policy”!
Want a policy that can change America today? Want a policy that will improve your workplace? Want a policy that will fortify your home? “My mouth will speak truth” (Prov. 8:7)!