Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Abraham Lincoln

God damn your God damned old hellfired God damned soul to hell. God damn you and God damn your damned family's God damned hellfired God damned soul to hell and Good damnation God damn them and God damn you God damned friends to hell.
Peter Muggins expressing his opinion of the President in a letter to him

Filthy story teller, despot, liar, theif, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate..
Harpers magzine on Abraham Lincoln

Nothing more than a well meaning baboon
General McCellan on Abraham Lincoln

An offensive exhibition of boorishness and vuglarity
General McCellan on Abraham Lincoln

Our country owes all it's troubles to him, and God simply mademe an instrument of his punishment
John Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally

The Lord himself prefers common looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln