Top 36 Quotes About Abe Lincoln
#1. Abe Lincoln once remarked that "most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." He was right.
Dale Carnegie
#2. For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Sydney Pollack
#3. ...as Abe Lincoln said, I was sick from my stovepipe hat to the worn out soles of my shoes.
Ben Greenman
#4. Numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be dead not to feel a vigorous stirring for a man so incredibly handsome as her wandering polecat.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
Ryan Lochte
#6. Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.
Don Cornell
#7. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#8. My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.
Gregory Peck
#9. Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
Bob Gunton
#10. I simply get up in the morning and go to work, and I read at night. Like Abe Lincoln. - Saul Bellow
Mason Currey
#11. One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.
John Updike
#12. If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
Dick Gregory
#13. I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal.
Mark Adams
#14. 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, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
Elayne Boosler
#15. If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.
Dana Gould
#16. 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 time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?
Deacon Jones
#17. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
#18. with malice toward none and charity for all.
Abe Lincoln
#19. Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#20. It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.
C.W. Abe Lincoln
#22. What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.
Merton Miller
#23. The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.
Grover Norquist
#24. But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
Ian McEwan
#26. To sin by silnce when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women)...
Abe Lincoln
#27. It's our job to put a good product out there, and fans will come. If they see a good product, a good style, fans will come.
Steve Alford
#28. What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?
Jami Attenberg
#29. They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Alice Hoffman
#30. If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
Peter Sotos
#31. Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.
Wilferd Peterson
#32. Would there be water shortages? Yes. More starving babies? Unfortunately. Would our quality of life soon be diminished by global warming? Probably. But who, I wondered, but the strongest among us could hold those ideas in their heads and find happiness? Get out of bed in the morning?
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#33. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
#34. If only we could be honest, both admit our fears, touch one another...Then, it might not be so hard to die - in a hospital - with friends close by.
American Journal Of Nursing
#35. You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#36. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free
honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
Abraham Lincoln
