WASHINGTON, George: “I can’t tell a lie, Pa; you know I can’t tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet”

George Washington (US Independence leader): “I can’t tell a lie, Pa; you know I can’t tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet” (Susan Ratcliffe, editor, “Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject”, Oxford University Press, 2000, page 223).