''Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

''I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, hauling rails, at work on a flatboat -- just what might happen to any poor man's son. I want every man to have a chance.''

''It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.''

Lincoln the man, the philosopher, the wit, and the public speaker is revealed in his many facets in this collection of his most memorable quaotations, speeches, and addresses.

• 64-page hardcover pocket gift book with full color, gold foil-enhanced dust jacket.
• Complemented by photographs of Lincoln.
• Measures 3-1/4'' wide x 5-3/8'' high.