Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln of Illinois: An Address Delivered Before the Union League Club of Chicago, on Lincoln's Birthday, Saturday, February Twelfth, 1921 Happy is the nation that can define its ideals in terms of the personality of its own great men. The essential principles of national life can never be embodied in written constitutions or expressed in legal precedents or formally adopted resolutions; they must be incarnated in the life of the people, and notably in the leaders of the 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.