Thinker Comparison

Donald Trump vs. Abraham Lincoln

Read 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Compare the wording and topic labels.

Shared topic labels:
justice
life

This page places 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: justice, life. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #52334: "These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with r…"

Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #171: "I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disp…"

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Donald Trump

1945

Politics
United States
973 quotes

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"

#religion

"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"

#success

"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"

#knowledge

"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"

#knowledge

"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"

#justice

"No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith."

#hope

"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."

#language

"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

#knowledge

"I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany m…"

#life

"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."

#time

"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"

#philosophy

"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"

#mind

"Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vic…"

#friendship

"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."

#money

"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"

#knowledge

"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."

#humor

"Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are …"

#friendship

"We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy, and pays for itself. And this way Mexico will have to pay much less money, and …"

#mind

"My goal is always again to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down and our country …"

#friendship

"The national debt has doubled. And you know the bad part about that? You think if the national debt has doubled, our infrastructure would be great, our count…"

#knowledge
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Abraham Lincoln

1744 – 1786

Politics
United States
426 quotes

Abraham Lincoln (1809) was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.

"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the cou…"

#Epistemology

"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."

#Politics

"A stanza of Lincoln's "On Seduction" (1837-39) as conveyed by James H. Matheny (1865 or 1866)"

#Politics

"Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest a…"

#Politics

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed…"

#Metaphysics

"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough t…"

#Epistemology

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

#Politics

"They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to in…"

#Politics

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called up…"

#Politics

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

#Politics

"The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There a…"

#truth

"All portions of this confederacy should act in harmony and with careful deliberation. The Democrats cry John Brown invasion. We are guiltless of it, but our …"

#freedom

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and s…"

#nature

"You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional — I think differently. I think the constitut…"

#justice

"Inasmuch as our country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of …"

#love

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

#life

"Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln"

#books

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even…"

#freedom

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"

#books
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