Lincoln Great Speaker

Lincoln = A Great Speaker Who was Abraham Lincoln? You might know that Lincoln was our 16th president, or that he was called Honest Abe, but there is more to him than that. According to Russell Freedman, Lincoln was an extraordinary speaker. He was a speaker who could draw anyone into listening to him speak, an orator who make perfect sense in whatever situation brought to him. It wasn’t just at the time when he was the president of 1861 through 1865, but he was a great speaker even when trying to achieve his goals. According to Lincoln: A Photobiography, it describes Abraham Lincoln’s speaking and how attentive people are while listening. On page thirty-seven through thirty-eight, it states that “His speeches were seasoned with wit and humor, and he could boil down the most complex issues to it’s simplest terms.” This is important to my statement because an exceptional speaker can easily bring anyone to listen to their speech, and that’s exactly what Abraham Lincoln could do. This shows he can keep you listening which is important to be a great speaker like Lincoln. Wouldn’t you want to listen to someone speak like that? Someone who would not let you get bored? This proves Lincoln is an effective and amazing speaker who could grab anybody’s attention with ease. Not …show more content…
On page fifty-nine, the text says that “The give and take between them (Douglas and Lincoln) held audiences spellbound.” I believe that if both Douglas and Lincoln can go and argue back and forth in a debate, not only Douglas, but Lincoln too, is an exceptional speaker. Another factor to this is that Abraham Lincoln “held audiences spellbound.” If Abraham Lincoln can argue confidently, he must be able to speak confidently in front of many people, which is what you do during a speech, not only a debate. Abraham Lincoln’s speaking was