Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln and Róbert Burns, honest and plain men of the people, stand today as the best-loved American and the bestloved Scotsman. The Lincoln log cabin in Kentucky and the Burns cottage in Ayrshire are shrines visited each year by countless admirers of these great figures. Born to poverty...

Mother, I love you so. Saíd the child, I love you more than I knowShe laid her head on her mother's arm, And the love between them kept them warm. StevieSmith

Mother, I love you so. Saíd the child, I love you more than I knowShe laid her head on her mother's arm, And the love between them kept them warm. StevieSmith

introduction in a sense the life goes out of a speech once it has been delivered. The tone and modulation of the voice, the dramatic emphasis and pause, the speaker's presence and the gestures of his hands are lost and cannot be recovered. In print, only the words, the bare bones, are preserved,...

Abraham Lincoln abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. His family moved from Kentucky to the backwoods of Indiana when he was eight. When he was nine, his mother died. As a young man, Lincoln did not have much formal schooling, but when he wasn't...