#lincoln

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

Lincoln said of the Know Nothings, "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where depotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. ↗

— James M. McPherson

#equality

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? ↗

— Kevin Costner

#how #know #lincoln #looked #ridiculed

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#history #lincoln #religion

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best picture #competent #crafty #dark #films

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#did #enjoy #how #lincoln #mrs

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#abraham lincoln #breathe #into #life #lincoln

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affection #certain #day #enormous #every

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#career #distinctively #entrance #his #into

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#better #candidates #does #done #elect