Abraham Quote by Barack Obama

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

— Barack Obama

“Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did.…

— Anonymous

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats…

— Condoleezza Rice

I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.

— Max Boot

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so…

— Gutzon Borglum

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

— Ana Navarro

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

— Bruce Rauner

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for…

— Will Hurd

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is…

— Elbert Guillory