"Tell the truth and you won't have..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.”

“I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.”

“Human-nature will not change.”

“Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.”

“I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.”

“I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.”

“There are two types of speakers: those thatare nervous and those that are liars.”

“Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.”

“To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.”