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How are you my Abe? Is the list nearly filled Of the sick men and dying of wounded and killed Of widows and tears, or orphans unfed Of poor honest white men struggling for bread? 'Dear Devil,' quoth Abe, 'I'm doing my best To promote the interest of you and the rest.
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The varnishers and veneerers have been busily converting Abe into a plaster saint?to pump all his human weaknesses out of him, and so leave him a mere moral apparition, a sort of amalgam of John Wesley and the Holy Ghost.


— Of popular perceptions of  Abraham Lincoln. Quoted in Fred Hobson Mencken:  A Life (1994).

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[You look like] a dishonest Abe Lincoln.

alexander woollcott

— Describing Harold Ross, fellow Round Table member and founder of The New Yorker, as quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, p. 461; variants of this quote begin "He looks like..." "He looked like..." etc.

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"...and the federal government is supposed to be the servant to the state government, states are supposed to be supreme, states' rights. Which goes into a long story of the wrong side winning the civil war, right? What was the civil war, it was Abe Lincoln's war, it wasn't the civil war..."

kent hovind

— "Redeeming the Straw Man", Christian Science Evangelism tape

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"...and the federal government is supposed to be the servant to the state government, states are supposed to be supreme, states' rights. Which goes into a long story of the wrong side winning the civil war, right? What was the civil war, it was Abe Lincoln's war, it wasn't the civil war..."


— "Redeeming the Straw Man", Christian Science Evangelism tape

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