Abraham Lincoln Quotes
100 quotes by 91 authors
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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…
— Drew Carey
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I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's…
— Darrell Issa
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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…
— Murray Rothbard
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To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and…
— Louis Auchincloss
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Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in…
— Chevy Chase
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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,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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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…
— Corrine Brown
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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
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Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What…
— George H. W. Bush
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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
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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
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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.…
— George Sweeting
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There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage…
— Barack Obama
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I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…
— Ronald Reagan
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I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had…
— John McCain
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Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will…
— Vince Flynn
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments…
— Frederick Douglass
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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…
— Dave Winfield
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And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.
— Allen West
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The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle…
— Norman Corwin
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