Honest Abe

Famous quotes containing the words honest and/or abe:

    “There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Willie couldn’t steal a vote from Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy.”
    —Robert Rossen (1908–1966)