Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.