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Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections. -- George Whitefield
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater. -- Roger Ebert
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. -- Charles Stanley
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. -- Julia Roberts
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. -- Andy Borowitz
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.' -- Jim Rohn
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. -- Sam Harris
Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought. -- Esther Hicks
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. -- H. L. Mencken
Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance. -- Sally Field
Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world. -- Sam Harris
I have existed before Abraham was born. -- James Moffatt
The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable. -- Matthew Simpson
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. -- Lydia M. Child
Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University. -- Ari Millen
Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes... -- Herbert W. Armstrong
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. -- Sarah Vowell
And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too. -- Allen West
I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves. -- Malcolm X
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. -- Gore Vidal
Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. -- Sam Waterston
Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. -- Method Man
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. -- Luke Ford
It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ. -- John Gee
The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition. -- Elie Wiesel
Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well. -- Henry Kaufman
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. -- Kurt Vonnegut
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion -- John Flanagan
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five. -- Too $hort
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. -- William Zinsser
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. -- Burton Richter
Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line. -- Frank Zappa
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. -- Kerry Thornley
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. -- Simon Van Booy
Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented. -- Jakob Bohme
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. -- Andrew Sullivan
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. -- Barack Obama
No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. -- Louie Gohmert
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. -- Hanoi Hannah
I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history. -- Malcolm X
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans. -- Bill Oberst Jr.
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham. -- J. C. Ryle
My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one." -- Donald Cerrone
Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and Hillary Clinton. -- Donald Trump
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it. -- John Kasich
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. -- John F. Kennedy
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. -- Thomas Goodwin
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. -- Douglas Brinkley
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. -- Marianne Williamson
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. -- Steven Spielberg
There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has. -- Barack Obama
Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln -- Demetri Martin
Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln. -- Richard Paul Evans
Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect. -- Bill Oberst Jr.
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. -- John Pearson
I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had. -- Christopher Buecheler
Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me. -- Shelby Foote
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow -- Laurell K. Hamilton
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? -- Anne Hutchinson
But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time! -- Esther Hicks
Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic. -- Jarod Kintz
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln. -- Fletcher Knebel
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. -- Charles Stanley
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky. -- Henry David Thoreau
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. -- Robert Dallek
Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly. -- Guillermo del Toro
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. -- James Earl Jones
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
My wife told me that in the Bible, Abraham circumcised himself... wow! I can't even get to the bank before it closes. -- Jim Gaffigan
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. -- Robert Foster Bennett
If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face -- Thom Yorke
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. -- Robert Foster Bennett
The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. -- Meir Soloveichik
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln. -- Paul Newman
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. -- Ken Follett
Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith. -- Elie Wiesel
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do. -- Eben Pagan
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat. -- Willard Scott
The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt. -- David Amram
My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better. -- Mario Cuomo
You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach. -- Rodney Dangerfield
In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever -- Royal Cortissoz
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. -- Blaise Pascal
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see -- Seth Grahame-Smith
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. -- Peter Agre
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread. -- Ambrose Bierce
Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. -- Meir Soloveichik
There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire. -- Donald Trump
Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. -- Sarah Palin
Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you]. -- Shams Tabrizi
Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. -- Akiva ben Joseph
For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence. -- Elie Wiesel
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs. -- William Hazlitt
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham). -- Henry Blackaby
Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God. -- Walter Kasper
My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out. -- Carl Froch
"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.... -- James R. Lewis
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. -- John F. Kerry
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him. -- Bruce Feiler
To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you! -- Chris Oyakhilome
I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. -- Henry Villard
Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams. -- Azim Premji
Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible. -- Desmond Tutu
There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about. -- Cass Sunstein
Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example. -- Zhu Rongji
Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln Â? by sending people to the theater. -- Jimmy Fallon
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men. -- Larry Kramer
I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? -- David Herbert Donald
The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles. -- Brigham Young
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union. -- Murray Rothbard
Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act. -- Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different. -- Barack Obama

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