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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable. -- Matthew Simpson
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. -- Lydia M. Child
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. -- Kerry Thornley
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. -- Andrew Sullivan
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. -- Simon Van Booy
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. -- Barack Obama
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.
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it. -- John Kasich
My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one." -- Donald Cerrone
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. -- John F. Kennedy
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. -- Douglas Brinkley
Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and Hillary Clinton. -- Donald Trump
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.
Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln -- Demetri Martin
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
Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me. -- Shelby Foote
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln. -- Fletcher Knebel
Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic. -- Jarod Kintz
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
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
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. -- Robert Dallek
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
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
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. -- Julia Roberts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace. -- Michael Scott
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
But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
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
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. -- Thomas Vernor Smith
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war. -- Kitty Kelley
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. -- Mark Sheppard
You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. -- John Milton
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them. -- Edwin Newman
I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary. -- Rafe Esquith
This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many. -- Dorothy Parker
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
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America. -- Christopher Morley
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. -- Christopher Hitchens
Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America. -- Kris Kristofferson
Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities. -- Gordon Gee
We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat. -- Bill Oberst Jr.
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. -- John Wooden
[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
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. -- Marion Barry
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did, -- Aaron Schock
I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. -- John McCain
John Silber said the single longest reference he could find to Abraham Lincoln [in Howard Zinn's History of America ] was two paragraphs. That was Howard Zinn. Would you like to hear how Ronaldus Magnus is portrayed? -- Rush Limbaugh
Coming out of the anti - coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, which led to the big confrontations between Frank Johnson and George Wallace. -- Jeff Sessions
Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them. -- Malcolm X
How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat your wife. -- Neal Shusterman
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. -- Corrine Brown
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
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion. -- Josiah Royce
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. -- Ronald Reagan
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done. -- Joe Klein
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. -- Jane Fonda
There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people. -- Meir Soloveichik
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here. -- John Ortberg
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that. -- Susan Orlean
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level. -- Ed Rollins
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. -- David Letterman
What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom. -- Bruce Catton
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it. -- Bruce Catton
Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Warren Buffett
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President. -- John Sergeant Wise
Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine. -- Sidney Sheldon
'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
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
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's? -- Thomas Frank
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. -- Belle Boyd
One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done. -- Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two." -- George Sweeting
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth. -- David Brooks
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president. -- Dave Winfield
Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions. -- Kevin Yoder

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