In American history, the most famous assurance of truth-telling is George Washington’s boyhood admission to his father that “I cannot tell a lie” — he had cut down the family’s cherry ...

It is appropriate to remind ourselves of one of the founding stories of the US — six-year-old George Washington saying 'I ...

When George Washington was a boy, the story goes that he chopped down a family cherry tree and then confessed with the immortal words: ‘Father, I cannot tell a lie...’ If only all politicians ...