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lincoln Quotes and Quotations
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. Peter Agre | top
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I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. Marion Berry | top
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There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man. Judy Biggert | top
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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln. Neil Cavuto | top
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Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? Kevin Costner | top
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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 | top
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago. David Herbert Donald | top
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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics. David Herbert Donald | top
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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 | top
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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. David Herbert Donald | top
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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market. Dick Gregory | top
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. Ada Louise Huxtable | top
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It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. John George Nicolay | top
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While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician. John George Nicolay | top
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I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. Barack Obama | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper. Allan Sherman | top
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. L. Neil Smith | top
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. Henry Villard | top
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There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. Henry Villard | top
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. Sarah Vowell | top
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. Sam Waterston | top
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I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. Abraham Whipple | top
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Frank Lloyd Wright | top
