Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
                                            
                            By Abraham Lincoln
                            
                                25 Feb, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact that
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                                                No man since Washington has become to Americans so familiar or so beloved a figure as Abraham Lincoln. He is to them the representative and typical American, the man who best embodies the political ideals of the nation. He is typical in the fact that he sprang from the masses of the people, that he remained through his whole career a man of the people, that his chief desire was to be in accord with the beliefs and wishes of the people, that he never failed to trust in the people and to rely on their support. Every native American knows his life and his speeches. His anecdotes and witticisms have passed into the thought and the conversation of the whole nation as those of no other statesman have done. Less