Download or read book Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln: Extracts from the Letters, Speeches, and Messages (Classic Reprint) written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln: Extracts From the Letters, Speeches, and Messages All honor to Jefferson; to a man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence bya single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary docu ment an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.