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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
'Lincoln' was OK; I thought it was a rock-solid eight out of 10, but it shouldn't win all the awards.
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.
'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.
I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about that.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
I really do think that it's going to be very important that fashion at Lincoln Center becomes a year-round initiative.
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
I really do not like having media moderators. Lincoln and Douglass didn't have moderators. Let the candidates ask one another questions.
I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.