Abraham Quotes - Page 4

• I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kings, Kids, Drs

  "Shakespeare, to expand their globe" by Merrill Balassone, articles.latimes.com. September 6, 2005.

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• Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Rights, Issues

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• Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.52, Chartwell

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• To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Church, Liberty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “Americanism in Religion”

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• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

  William Hazlitt

  Morning, Health, Giving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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• This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

  Dorothy Day

  Country, Taken, Luxury

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• You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

  John Kasich

  Guy, Littles, Bigs

  "Gov. John Kasich talks balanced budget push, 2016 plans; Denis McDonough on president's domestic, foreign policy priorities". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2015.

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

  Sam Waterston

  Ifs

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• Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Religion, Lines

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Patient

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

  Edwin Newman

  People, Sides, Scientist

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

  William Ames

  Church, Today, Helping

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, Names

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• The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

  Ed Rollins

  Hate, Party, Levels

  "Bachmann's former campaign chief - shame on you, Michele" by Edward Rollins, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Should Have, Promise, Generations

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• If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Company, Ifs

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• Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Rain, Believe, Past

  "Pareidolia in Politics: The Face of Faith’s Corrupting Influence". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sleep, Men, President

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.198, Library of Alexandria

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• I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiration, Old Testament, Prophet

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.

  Henry Kaufman

  Father, Belief, Enormous

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Government, People

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• From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, War, Space

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• Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Years, People

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• The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, July, Letters

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• All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Departed, Reason

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