Quotes About Honesty

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.

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.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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 what light I have.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

I'd become aware of human complexity--that's a kinder word than "deceit.

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.