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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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

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no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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