“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address (Primary source)
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after one of the war’s bloodiest battles.
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“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
— Abraham Lincoln Primary source“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
— Abraham Lincoln Primary source“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
— Abraham Lincoln Primary source“One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.”
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“God helps them that help themselves.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents.”
— John F. Kennedy Primary source“A new-born government must dazzle.”
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