Lincoln Quotes

327 quotes by 227 authors

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. — Bruce Barton
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons,… — Elayne Boosler
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the… — George H. W. Bush
The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,… — George H. W. Bush
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over… — George H. W. Bush
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
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the… — Carl G. Fisher
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
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways… — Carl G. Fisher
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
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
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the… — Richard J. Maybury
Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it — James Truslow Adams
Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my… — Deacon Jones
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
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
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
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant. — Peggy Lee

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