"We do not, for one minute, deny that George Washington was the father of our country, that he was a great man, probably the greatest of all American history, and he was the first president ...

Young George bravely said, ‘I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.’ Washington’s father embraced him and rejoiced that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.” ...

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 ...

There’s a popular myth that George Washington damaged a cherry tree in his youth, then confessed to his father by saying: “I cannot tell a lie.” There’s no hard evidence that this actually ...

Such was the case last week with George Washington ... fructifying quality of genius. . . .” Cherry Tree. “The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen ...

With his supposed stiff-upper-lip line “I cannot tell a lie,” a young George Washington confessed to dismembering a valued cherry tree. Honesty seems to have peaked early in American politics.