Best Lincoln Words
327 Lincoln quotes by 223 unique authors
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I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay…
— Allan Sherman
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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
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An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.
— Michael Medved
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Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams…
— Barack Obama
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You complain and demand zero compromise - so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn't improve - then you complain and demand even more…
— John Fugelsang
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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…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham…
— Steven Spielberg
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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…
— Sally Field
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Did you ever stop to thnk about all the people we kill? They're always people who tell us to live together in harmony and try…
— George Carlin
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Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in…
— John George Nicolay
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It…
— Matthew Sweet
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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit,…
— Matthew Simpson
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If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.
— Garth Brooks
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Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when…
— George Aiken
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There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have…
— John Steinbeck
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I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which (Abraham) Lincoln…
— Howard Dean
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Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase…
— Robert David Steele
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going…
— David Herbert Donald
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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to…
— David Herbert Donald
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
— David Herbert Donald
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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
— Ned Sublette
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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