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.

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.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.