Best Lincoln Stories Tersely Told

How American history would dwindle if that name were taken out of it! Washington was great. Grant was great. Lee was great. Many others have been and are great in all the walks of life. But Lincoln who came out of the lowly heart of the people will come back nearer to that heart than any other man probably that the nation has known. There have been men of war and there have been men of peace but there has been no such man of peace in war as Lincoln. Why is it we never tire of thinking of Mr. Lincoln personally nor of speaking of him and his deeds? Is it not because he was indeed one of the most unique figures in history and one of the most remarkable surprises of the age? What has he been called by those who knew him best? The greatest of patriots the wisest of rulers the ablest of men.