“ His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 650
“ Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ”
- Kerry Thornley- Copy
- 2.1K
“ You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face. ”
- Tom Taylor- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2K
“ With the thoughts I'd be thinkin' I could be another Lincoln, if I only had a brain. ”
- E. Y. Harburg- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We don't do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina. It's nothing personal, but it takes a while to get over things. ”
- Lindsey Graham- Copy
- 52
“ If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. ”
- Bo Bennett- Copy
- 149
“ I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders. ”
- Dan Aykroyd- Copy
- 290
“ We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
- 2.1K
“ This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 612
“ Abraham Lincoln's principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: Whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was all done. That makes men great almost anywhere. ”
- Russell H. Conwell- Copy
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“ He learned by sight, scent, and hearing. He heard all that was said, and talked over and over the questions heard; wore them slick, greasy, and threadbare. He went to political and other speeches and gatherings; he would hear all sides and opinions, talk them over and discuss them, agreeing or disagreeing… ”
- William M. Thayer- Copy
- 4K
“ The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth… ”
- Arthur Quinn- Copy
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“ I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. ”
- John McCain- Copy
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“ I like classic cars, I've had some really good ones. A '66 Toronado, a black one - it's a very satanic-looking car. I have a coffin-nosed '37 Cord, white, I've had that one since 1956. I've had a '34 Deusenburg, a '48 Lincoln Continental with the squared-off windows… ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free… ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 1K
“ 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 gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark. ”
- Carl Sa- Copy
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“ Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others white and black reached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr… ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier… ”
- Robert Coles- Copy
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“ No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be… ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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