Excerpt from Lincolnics: Familiar Sayings of Abraham Lincoln "To rule people," (says Professor Littre) "there is not so much need to know what they have done or are doing, as what they think and how they say it." It would, therefore, be better to be the voice of the people than their law-giver or their song-writer. Lincoln had many difficulties to contend with in his early attempts as an orator. He faced backwoods hearers, he had to pierce dulness, ignorance, narrowness, and intellectual blindness. His thoughts were purely his own, but he was forced to couch them in everyday speech - to use the tongue of the common people. 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.