Abraham Quotes - Page 6

• Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Dark, Men, Fans

  Source: horrornews.net

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• I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Tricks

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

  Malcolm X

  Slave, Said

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

  George Saunders

  People, Understood, Written

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• Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Hurt, Dark, Boys

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• I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Grandma, Reading

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• People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if A, then B, and he would reason through it. His late writing especially is so tight and so beautifully reasoned.

  George Saunders

  Writing, People, Tools

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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

  Party, Believe, Issues

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• It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Breathe

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• For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

  King Hussein I

  Children, Birth Place, Together

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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• My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Character, Wrath

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.

  Steve Erickson

  Country, Believe, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Leader, Unions

  Barack Obama's Address to a Joint Session of Congress, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Destiny, America, President

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Hero

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• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

  John Wooden

  Want, Too Much, Miserable

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• In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came into the world to do their work without severe opposition against them. That was with Abraham, Noah, Lot, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all and all the prophets and messengers in between. That is our role today.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Jesus, Roles, World

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

  Sarah Vowell

  Nice, Slave, Skis

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  Charles Stanley

  Military, Opportunity, Land

  "War and the Wayward" by Michael Standaert, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2006.

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• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Strange, Odd

  "Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg Share 'Lincoln' Experience" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Compassion, Way

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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