“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume IV, Remarks at the Monongahela House (February 14, 1861), p. 209.
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