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| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | | The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. | |
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| G. Gordon Liddy | | A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money. | |
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| G. Gordon Liddy | | A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. | |
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| A. J. Liebling | | People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news. | |
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| A. J. Liebling | | Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. | |
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| Joshua Liebman | | Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. | |
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| John Lilly | | In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. | |
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| Eduard Limonov | | There’s no longer any left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | I have been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a Dome on it. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | [I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln (False) | | America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | 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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| Abraham Lincoln (Questionable) | | Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Let it [the Constitution] be taught in schools, seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. By adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln (Questionable) | | I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | 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 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 the time. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who
would pervert it! | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity. The financing of all public enterprise, and the conduct of the treasury will become matters of practical administration. Money will cease to be master and will then become servant of humanity. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | ... the privilege of creating and issuing money... is the government's greatest creative opportunity... [saving] the taxpayers immense sums of money... | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time... | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from ... the Declaration of Independence ... that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence ... I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | | No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. | |
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| William S. Lind | | What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction? | |
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | | The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. | |
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | | Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. | | This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The trusts will soon realize that they have gone too far even for their own good. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Power. This they will be able to do by taking control of Congress. Wall Streeters could not cheat us if you Senators and Representatives did not make a humbug of Congress... The greatest crime of Congress is its currency system. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own government. | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. | | When the President signs this act [Federal Reserve Act of 1913], the invisible government by the money power -- proven to exist by the Monetary Trust Investigation -- will be legalized. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created. | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. | | A radical is one who speaks the truth. | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. | | This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill. | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. | | The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation...they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the excitement and then bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices...the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. | |
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| Robert Lindner | | Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. | |
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| John V. Lindsay | | There are men – now in power in this country – who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. | |
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| John V. Lindsay | | Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. | |