Quotes tagged ‘Abraham Lincoln’

“His incompetence, his amorality, his carnage stops with us right here, right now, starting in the Midwest. Limit it to four years, I believe, I really do believe this. In history, we’ll look back on this presidency as an aberrant moment in American history, but if Donald Trump is reelected, I believ…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“No matter how old or young you are, you’ve never seen anything like this in your lifetime. We’re being reminded every day there’s nothing guaranteed about democracy, not even here in America. We have to constantly earn it. We have to protect it. We have to fight for it. I believe America is in, as L…”

— Joe Biden, rev.com

“The nigger in the stable has a letter from Abraham Lincoln?”

— Quentin Tarantino, Sheriff Chris Mannix, Walton Goggins, imdb.com

“[Danny tells his brothers the incident with President Lincoln] Danny: Mr. President, say, I'm gonna go hit the little boy's room. Abraham Lincoln: Are you shitting me? Danny: Come on, you'll be fine superstar. Can I get you something on the way back? Agua? Brewski? Abraham Lincoln: No. Danny: Alrigh…”

— Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler, Danny, Luke Wilson, imdb.com

“Abraham Lincoln once said that, 'If you're a racist, I will attack you with the North.' And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.”

— B.J. Novak,, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, imdb.com

“[as Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address] When I almost scored with four chicks seven years ago, this one chick's father brought forth upon me a prostitute. Huh-huh. Because some dudes just weren't created equal. Huh-huh.”

— Kristofor Brown, Butt-head, Mike Judge, imdb.com

“It's not the same, Summer! Lincler's a crazed maniac. He's just a misguided effort of mine to create a morally neutral super-leader by combining the DNA of Adolf Hitler and Abraham Lincoln. Turns out that ehh-it just adds up to a lame, weird... loser.”

— Ryan Ridley, Tom Kauffman, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“He was the best kind of ordinary man, and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as high praise, not deprecation. That’s the highest praise you can give a man, that he’s one of the people and becomes distinguished in the service that he gives other people. I don’t know of any higher com…”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“We must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which m…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org

“It is a good thing that the guard around the tomb of Lincoln should be composed of colored soldiers. It was my own good fortune at Santiago to serve beside colored troops. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward. More than that no…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“I always felt Moses freed the Jews, Lincoln freed the slaves, and I wanted to free all the neurotics. And I realized in the process that I've helped millions of people get through puberty. I think that's a great accomplishment.”

— Larry Flynt, cnn.com

“Son: "I don't want to walk to school tomorrow, dad!" Dad: "When Abraham Lincoln was your age son, he had to walk 12 miles each day to get to school!" Son: "Well dad... ...when Abraham lincoln was your age, he was president!”

— googledegreeguy, reddit.com

“One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an 'upper' class, a 'high' society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.”

— Timothy Leary, archive.org