Best Lincoln Qoutes
327 Lincoln quotes by 223 unique authors
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Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
— Sarah Vowell
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
— Sarah Vowell
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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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…
— John Wooden
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Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America?…
— Tori Amos
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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)…
— David Letterman
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
— Sarah Vowell
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The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl…
— Gore Vidal
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We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham…
— Dave Barry
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You're not an idiot. You're just eccentric. (Selena) That's what they said about Mary Todd Lincoln. Until they locked her up. (Grace)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown…
— Langston Hughes
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How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are…
— John Wooden
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The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a…
— Sarah Vowell
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Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.
— Sarah Vowell
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Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew…
— Carl Sandburg
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But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.
— Richard Paul Evans
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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about…
— Joseph J. Ellis
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln?” she (Beth) asked. “Yes?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open eyes and…
— Rainbow Rowell
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The way she told it, she was such a criminal even the most God-fearing church ladies got bored of reporting on her; she did the…
— Kami Garcia
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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a…
— Eric Foner
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