DONALD TRUMP (at a rally in Anytown, USA): Believe me, we’re going to build a beautiful Republican Party after this election – and , believe me, the Democrats will pay for it – and it will be a tremendous new party of Lincoln.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (walking on stage out of the shadows): Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether –

DT: Disloyal [Republicans] are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win – I will teach them!

AL: There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

DT: Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.

AL: The proportions of this rebellion were not for a long time understood. I saw that it involved the greatest difficulties, and would call forth all the powers of the whole country.

DT: Crooked Hillary Clinton likes to talk about the things she will do but she has been there for 30 years – why didn’t she do them?

AL: Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government . . .

DT: I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks. She is unfit to run. 

AL: In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

DT: The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks!

AL: I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

DT: The phony story in the failing ‪@nytimes is a TOTAL FABRICATION. Written by same people as last discredited story on women. WATCH!

AL: Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of [this] contest.

DT: Why didn’t the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the “incident” in her story. Because it did not happen!

AL: At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

DT: DON’T LET HER FOOL US AGAIN.

AL: With malice toward none; with charity for all –

DT: It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.

(Abraham Lincoln quotes via Abraham Lincoln Online. Donald Trump quotes – except first – via Twitter.)

Originally published at tovima.gr (Athens, Greece).