Abraham Lincoln, n.Definitions

Abraham Lincoln is a huckster in politics; a first-rate second-rate man.

Abraham Lincoln is an offensive exhibition of boorishness and vulgarity.

Abraham Lincoln is nothing more than a well-meaning baboon.

Abraham Lincoln is America's greatest precedent.

Abraham Lincoln is great, not because he once lived in a cabin, but because he got out of it.

Abraham Lincoln is a filthy storyteller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.

Abraham Lincoln is the leanest, lankest, most ungainly mass of legs and arms and hatchet face ever strung on a single frame. He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege, which all politicians have, of being ugly.

Abraham Lincoln is a man whose mind works in the right directions but seldom works clearly and cleanly. His bread is of unbolted flour, and much straw, too, mixes in the bran, and sometimes gravel stones.