A Quote by 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 the time.

Abraham Lincoln

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Time Cannot Fool People Some

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

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.

Abraham Lincoln

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Steven Pinker

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Marc Guggenheim

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

Howard Zinn

It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.

Gene Perret

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

Pat Paulsen

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Spike Milligan

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

Aesop

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

W. C. Fields

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

George W. Bush

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

William Hazlitt

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

Tan Cheng Bock

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

John Prine

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.