"You can always lie to others and..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

“If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”

“[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

“Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

“A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.”

“A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.”

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.”