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.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.