President Lincoln Quotes

• President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with one voice and one heart. That's just what we have to do.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Voice, President

  "Week In Politics: Trump Makes First Cabinet Appointments". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 25, 2016.

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• President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Presidential, Trying

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, President, Citizens

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Law, President, Branches

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap!

  David Letterman

  Writing, Night, Guy

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• One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Break Through, Style

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Holiday, Weekend

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• ...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Heart, Enemy

  Ulysses S. Grant (2006). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

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• President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Enemy

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• President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

  Pete Hegseth

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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