#lincoln

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. ↗

— Drew Carey

#abraham lincoln #ago #day #essentially #fit

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#centre #composer #face #fact #festival

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#bush #called #cause #compared #critics

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. ↗

— Michael Huffington

#forth #gays #hispanics #lincoln #out

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. ↗

— Luke Ford

#abraham lincoln #books #churchill #david #heroes

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

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

#abraham lincoln #ballot #chagrin #fully #i

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#born #going #least #lincoln #play

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

#carolina #charleston #congress #defense #general