“I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.”

"If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or, being lied about , don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look to good, nor talk to wise;
you'll be a Man, my son !"
Rudyard Kipling "If"

I like the distinction!