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“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”
— Abraham Lincoln Primary source“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
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“A new-born government must dazzle.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.”
— Ernest Hemingway 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“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
— Benjamin Franklin DisputedPolitics Freedom American Civil War Liberty