Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

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I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

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I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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