Thursday, July 7, 2016

Lincoln's Speeches, by Abraham Lincoln

Really enjoyed reading these speeches.  Lincoln was a fine writer as well as a great President, and a man of logic and good common sense.  A couple of speeches in this collection did get a bit dry in the middle--one of the State of the Unions, where he had to go into a lot of figures in the budget, but then there's no avoiding that when you have to go into detail.  The most inspiring ones for me were the one given at the Lyceum in Springfield, the House Divided speech, and of course, the Gettysburg Address.

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