Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish essayist and historian, Member of Parliament, Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, 1899
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See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841), he argued that the actions of the "Great Man" play a key role in history, claiming that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men". Other major works include The French Revolution: A History, 3 vols (1837) and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vols (1858–65).
