Back Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

— Sam Waterston

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

— George W. Norris

I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.

— Jeff Fortenberry

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

— Dick Gregory

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I can be the most presidential person ever, other than possibly the great Abe Lincoln, all right?

— Donald Trump

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

— Danny Lyon

When I come to work in this capital, I'll visit Mr. Lincoln every day. I've been walking in his footsteps my entire life.

— Daniel Cameron

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

— Julie Andrews

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

— Bill Oberst Jr

“You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do,” Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. “If I were…

— Scott Farris