Mitch McConnell vs. Abraham Lincoln
Read 20 entries attributed to Mitch McConnell alongside 20 attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Mitch McConnell 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: politics, justice, truth, life. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Mitch McConnell, entry #216209: "Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s bizarre pandemic proced…"
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, entry #169: "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."
Side-by-Side Comparison
Mitch McConnell
1942
Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a seat he has held since 1985. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader, and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S.
"Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s b…"
#knowledge"The framers built the Senate to stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic. So I believe protecting our constitut…"
#politics"Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice"
#justice"The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people."
#power"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a ne…"
#justice"Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. Trump is practically and morally responsible for…"
#beauty"You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see this bill pass the Senate."
"He did not do his job. He didn't take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and order restored. No. Instead, according to public reports, he watc…"
#justice"Think of me as the Grim Reaper."
#mind"One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.'"
#time"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."
#war"I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the America…"
#time"Well Mister President, here's what happened: House Democrats decided to add a poison pill the new demand is really extreme: a hard statutory cap on the numbe…"
#politics"There was no involvement whatsoever."
"Self-government, my colleagues, requires a shared commitment to the truth and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system. We cannot keep drifting ap…"
#truth"I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle…"
#politics"Breaking the rules to change the rules is un-American."
#change"With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his testify."
#humor"Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers."
#life"The Senate just passed the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act. I’m especially proud it includes my amendment reaffirming the importance …"
#justiceAbraham Lincoln
1744 – 1786
Abraham Lincoln (1809) was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
"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"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"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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
#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"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"The Democracy are given to 'bushwhacking'. After having their errors and mis-statements continually thrust in their faces, they pay no heed, but go on howlin…"
#politics"To us it appears natural to think that slaves are human beings; men, not property; that some of the things, at least, stated about men in the Declaration of …"
#freedom"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
"The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more satisfactory to all, if it contained fifty, thirty, or ev…"
#life"In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. N…"
#justice"Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln"
#books"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"
#books"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"When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, or that grievances may not arise for…"
#life