#lincoln

Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#guys #like #lincoln #sexy

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#abraham lincoln #became #car #famous #few

Lincoln said of the Know Nothings, "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where depotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. ↗

— James M. McPherson

#equality

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#certain #consequence #election #individually #lincoln

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? ↗

— Kevin Costner

#how #know #lincoln #looked #ridiculed

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that! ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #could #finally #good #helped

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 spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#first #first of all #i #kind #lincoln

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#abraham lincoln #boy #gay #had #heroes