“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.”
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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“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“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“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 Primary source“I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.”
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“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison Disputed“Money is a tool to be put to work.”
— A.P. Møller Disputed“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source