Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Lying

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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth, Lying, Believe

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

Abraham Lincoln

Lying, Home, People

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

Abraham Lincoln

Kings, Lying, Men

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.359, Library of America

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

Abraham Lincoln

Encouragement, Lying, Fool

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln

Strong, Lying, Justice

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

Abraham Lincoln

Memories, Lying, Worst Enemy

Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Abraham Lincoln

War, Lying, Sleep

Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth, Lying, Believe

Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.141, Library of America

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

Abraham Lincoln

Lying, Light, Soul

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.311, University of Chicago Press

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Abraham Lincoln

Lying, Might, Outcomes

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Abraham Lincoln

Lying, Men, Justice

Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois