Quotes & Sayings About Honest Abe

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. — Tina Brown

I stared in awe at the Lincoln Memorial. If Honest Abe had come to life and somehow managed to lift his bony twenty-three-foot, four-inch frame from his throne, what would he say? What would he do? Would he break-dance? Would he pitch pennies against the curbside? Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy, that the people he freed were now slaves to rhythm, rap, and predatory lending, and that today his skill set would be better suited to the basketball court than the White House? — Paul Beatty

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free
honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth — Abraham Lincoln

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal. — Mark Adams