A very abbreviated version of Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum Address of 1838 is presented below in honor of the recent Presidents Day.

It’s another book on Abraham Lincoln, but this one, “His Greatest Speeches,” is for “a slow reader,” says its author, Diana Schaub, a professor at Loyola University, Maryland.

Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum Address, Jan. 27, 1838 "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.