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Abraham Lincoln

Thursday 25th of April 2024

Books So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! Abraham Lincoln, on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin © 2021 Kwiple.com
Change As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrhall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (1862) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. That I can tell you. It's real easy. Donald Trump, Phoenix rally, August 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Government The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln © 2019 Kwiple.com
Looks The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln © 2015 Kwiple.com
Minority rule The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotidm in some form is all that is left.  Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republican Party The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln. George W. Bush, at the NAACP 2000 national convention © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party We are the party of Lincoln. We are not the party of QAnon or anti-Semitism or Holocaust deniers, or white supremacy or conspiracy theories. Liz Cheney, whistling past the graveyard after being censured by Wyoming Republicans for saying Donald Trump should have no role in the Party going forward © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abrham Lincoln © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held the office. That I can tell you. It's real easy. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, “In God We Trust.” Abraham Lincoln portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republican kiss-asses say Claiming  he's more popular than Lincoln ever was is the Right thing to do  © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
State of the union If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” speech (1858) © 2015 Kwiple.com